Ian Irvine
Articles by Ian Irvine
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Arts & Culture
Uncommon man
- 19 February 2009
John Adams's operas have laid the foundations of a distinctively American classical tradition. But, outside Carnegie Hall, the United States remains a nation profoundly uncomfortable with high culture
Opera
The drowned world
- 04 December 2008
Elaborate stagecraft is superfluous in a piece as spare and grim as a Norse epic
Riders to the Sea Coliseum, London WC2
Arts & Culture
A thousand flowers
- 18 September 2008
In his seventh decade, John Adams's musical fertility still springs anew
Theatre
Of love and hunger
- 14 August 2008
Two inventive new productions showcase the best of Glyndebourne
Hänsel und Gretel Love and Other Demons Glyndebourne
Opera
Unenlightened behaviour
- 03 July 2008
- 1 comment
Clunking anti-Americanism mars a bold updating of Bernstein's work
Candide
Coliseum, London WC2
Opera
How lust conquers all
- 22 May 2008
Glyndebourne's first night lived up to the buzz with a passion-filled masterpiece
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Glyndebourne Festival
Books
Parallel lives
- 03 October 2005
Edge of the Orison: in the traces of John Clare's "journey out of Essex"
Iain Sinclair Hamish Hamilton, 400pp, £16.99
ISBN 0241142180
