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Stephen is a former Observer music critic and a regular contributor to The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent and the BBC. He is the author of a major biography of Stravinsky and other books on Stravinsky, Bartók and Schumann. He holds a chair in music at Cardiff University.

Articles By Stephen Walsh

The Turn of the Screw, Garsington Opera review - superb music drama on an open stage

Friday, 05 July 2019 Read more...

Rusalka, Glyndebourne Festival review - away with the distressed fairies

Monday, 01 July 2019 Read more...

Brundibár, Welsh National Opera review - bittersweet children's opera from the ghetto

Monday, 24 June 2019 Read more...

Das Rheingold, Longborough Festival Opera review - more Wagnerian excellence in a Gloucestershire barn

Thursday, 06 June 2019 Read more...

I Fagiolini, Hollingworth, St George's Bristol review - Leonardo and music, immortal, invisible

Saturday, 04 May 2019 Read more...

The Magic Flute, Welsh National Opera review - charming to hear, charmless to look at

Saturday, 16 February 2019 Read more...

Un ballo in maschera, Welsh National Opera review - opera as brilliant self-parody

Monday, 11 February 2019 Read more...

War and Peace, Welsh National Opera review - an Operation Barbarossa that comes off

Monday, 17 September 2018 Read more...

theartsdesk at the Three Choirs Festival - religion, passion and Nordic fakery

Tuesday, 31 July 2018 Read more...

Prom 5, Pelléas et Mélisande, Glyndebourne review - for the ears, not the eyes

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 Read more...

Ariadne auf Naxos, Longborough Festival review - appetising energy and wit

Saturday, 14 July 2018 Read more...

La Traviata, Longborough Festival review - muddled director, vocal mixed bag

Monday, 25 June 2018 Read more...

theartsdesk at the Leipzig Bach Festival: a cantata blockbuster

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 Read more...

Der fliegende Holländer, Longborough Festival review - stand and deliver on an empty stage

Thursday, 07 June 2018 Read more...

Madama Butterfly, Glyndebourne review - perverse staging, outstanding cast

Sunday, 20 May 2018 Read more...

BBC NOW, Alexandre Bloch, Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff review - tonal music in an avant-garde sense

Saturday, 12 May 2018 Read more...

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