alexandra.coghlan

alexandra coghlan

Bio

Alexandra is the classical music critic of the New Statesman, and has written on arts for The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Prospect, Gramophone, Opera Now, The Oxford Times and The Monthly. She was formerly Performing Arts Editor at Time Out, Sydney. She writes about classical music, theatre and film for theartsdesk.

Articles By Alexandra Coghlan

Giustino, Linbury Theatre review - a stylish account of a slight opera Wednesday, 08 October 2025 Read more...	BBC Proms: Le Concert Spirituel, Niquet review - super-sized polyphonic rarities Monday, 18 August 2025 Read more...
Faust, Royal Opera review - pure theatre in this solid revival Saturday, 24 May 2025 Read more...	Pygmalion, Early Opera Company, Curnyn, Middle Temple Hall review - Rameau magic outside the opera house Wednesday, 21 May 2025 Read more...
Attacca Quartet, Kings Place review - bridging the centuries in sound Sunday, 16 March 2025 Read more...	The Marriage of Figaro, English National Opera review - long on laughs, short on kerb appeal Thursday, 06 February 2025 Read more...
La rondine, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - sumptuous orchestral playing in an underrated score Wednesday, 11 December 2024 Read more...	The Sound Voice Project, Linbury Theatre review - an art installation that has strayed into an opera house Saturday, 16 November 2024 Read more...
Kanneh-Mason, Sinfonia of London, Wilson, Barbican review - taking the roof off the Barbican Wednesday, 16 October 2024 Read more...	Frang, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - a concerto performance to treasure Friday, 13 September 2024 Read more...
La traviata, Royal Opera review - a charismatic soprano in a serviceable revival Tuesday, 10 September 2024 Read more...	Everest, Barbican review - a powerful operatic debut from Joby Talbot Saturday, 24 June 2023 Read more...
Werther, Royal Opera review - Kaufmann off form in this stiff revival Wednesday, 21 June 2023 Read more...	Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park review - Verdi's Duke gets the Oxbridge treatment Wednesday, 31 May 2023 Read more...
Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Academy of Ancient Music, Milton Court review - radiant and full of life Friday, 12 May 2023 Read more...	Theodora, Arcangelo, Cohen, Barbican review - gloriously dark and sober Thursday, 30 March 2023 Read more...

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...

Cooper, Hallé, Elder, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review -...

Sir Mark Elder was back on the scene of past triumphs last night as he returned to the Hallé at the Bridgewater Hall – and he has not lost his...

Anemone review - searching for Daniel Day-Lewis

Given that the film industry is a fairly vain business, it follows that every movie is to some extent a vanity project. So it seems churlish...

Sad and Beautiful World: Mavis Staples offers words of wisdo...

Mavis Staples, the woman to whom a young Bob Dylan proposed marriage when they met at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and whose voice he has...

theartsdesk on Vinyl 93: Led Zeppelin, Blawan, Sylvester, Za...

VINYL OF THE MONTH

Martel Zaire (Evil Ideas)

...

Suzanne Vega and Katherine Priddy, Royal Albert Hall review...

Opening acts don’t always enjoy a full house, but at at the Royal Albert Hall at the end of a UK tour in support of Suzanne Vega and her acclaimed...

Train Dreams review - one man's odyssey into the Americ...

What defines a life? Money and success? Happiness? Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams employs a narrator, much as Terrence Malick’s...

Kali Malone and Drew McDowell generate 'Magnetism'...

It’s weird, right? We’ve somehow stumbled into a world where, for all we’re told that algorithms homogenise music, actually more people than ever...

Palestine 36 review - memories of a nation

“Rebellion begins with a breath,” an opening aphorism declares in this first film recounting Palestine’s 1936-39 Arab Revolt, long historically...

Relay review - the method man

Ash (Riz Ahmed) is one of cinema’s capable men, the kind of monastically devoted pro made to be a hitman or getaway driver. David Fincher’s ...