sun 12/01/2025

Jessica Duchen

Articles By Jessica Duchen

Orpheus in the Underworld, English National Opera review – ENO goes to hell

Read more...

Werther, Royal Opera review - shadows and sunsets from an unreconstructed romantic

Read more...

Beethoven Festival Weekend, Wigmore Hall review 1 - sparkle and charisma versus creative overkill

Read more...

Prom 43: Haefliger, BBCSO & Chorus, Oramo review – the frisson of the new

Read more...

theartsdesk at Bard Summerscape Festival 2019: unknown treasures and crosscurrents galore

Read more...

Prom 39: Morison, BBCNOW, Chan review - a night of inspiring firsts

Read more...

theartsdesk at Incontri in Terra di Siena: galloping concertos and Stravinsky by starlight

Read more...

Prom 14: The Creation, BBC Proms Youth Choir, BBC Philharmonic, Wellber - Haydn on the edge

Read more...

Porgy and Bess, Grange Park Opera review - good versus evil in Catfish Row

Read more...

Grosvenor, Doric Quartet, Milton Court review - cohesion or collision?

Read more...

Benjamin Grosvenor, Barbican review - virtuosity at its classiest

Read more...

Grosvenor, Doric String Quartet, Milton Court review – a night to remember

Read more...

Candide, LSO, Alsop, Barbican review - nearly the best of all possible...

Read more...

Federico Colli, Wigmore Hall review – poised on the edge of the possible

Read more...

Katya Apekisheva, Charles Owen, Kings Place review - one plus one equals a hundred

Read more...

Jansen, LSO, Rattle, Barbican review - nature's splendours and a fond farewell

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

American Primeval, Netflix review - nightmare on the Wild Fr...

It seems The Osmonds may not have been the worst outrage perpetrated on an unsuspecting public by the Mormons. American Primeval is set...

The Second Act review - absurdist meta comedy about stardom

Can any line from The Second Act be taken at face value? Not really. “I should never have made this film,” confides Florence (the starry...

Music Reissues Weekly: Celebrate Yourself! The Sonic Cathedr...

Yeti Lane’s second album The Echo Show was released in March 2012. The Paris-based duo’s LP was stunning: holding together overall, as...

Album: Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out

Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira are furious. Livid with the rapist...

Maria review - Pablo Larraín's haunting portrait of an...

As Bono once commented about Luciano Pavarotti, “the opera follows him off stage”. Legendary...

Titanique, Criterion Theatre review - musical parody sinks d...

This Celine Dion jukebox musical has been a big hit in New York, but...

Album: Franz Ferdinand - The Human Fear

Travel back in time to the mid 2000s and you would be hard pressed to escape "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand on the air waves. On the radio,...

Babygirl review - would-be steamy drama that only flirts wit...

Babygirl starts with the sound of sex, piped in over the credits. There's a lot of it on our screens at the moment, from ...