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Mark Pullinger

A portfolio of reviews, interviews and articles by classical music and opera critic, Mark Pullinger, mostly with links to sites where his work is published, such as Bachtrack, Gramophone and Opera Now.

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Picture postcard from the country house opera festivals

April, according to TS Eliot, is the cruellest month, but for those opera critics afflicted with FOMO, that cruellest month would be June. Or at least the most punishing month. By then, the UK’s country house opera scene is in full swing an...

7 days ago
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The Art of the Encore

Always leave ’em wanting more. It’s an old adage, commonly attributed to the legendary promoter Phineas Taylor Barnum, but it’s a good one. After last night’s Wigmore Hall concert which ran to a self-indulgent seven encores (reviewed here f...

16 days ago
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Minnie, Get Your Gun!

Long before Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, with their lonely landscapes, morally ambiguous heroes and heightened sense of drama, or Annie Oakley, the sassy sharpshooter in Annie, Get Your Gun, Puccini created a musical vision of the Ame...

a month ago
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Onegin interruptus...

Here’s a curious situation. I was recently commissioned to review a new Eugene Onegin DVD/Blu-ray scheduled for release from EuroArts. It was Christof Loy’s production at the Teatro Real in Madrid, filmed in January 2025. A Blu-ray was duly...

2 months ago
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Primavera: Vivaldi goes to the movies

A period drama from Damiano Michieletto? The man who brought us the outstanding Cav & Pag and the controversial Guillaume Tell? The man who blinds audiences (and singers) with garish, glaring lighting? Oh the irony that Primavera, the opera...

3 months ago
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