Mezzo-soprano with a commanding presence as Bizet’s Carmen, Berlioz’s Dido and Wagner’s Fricka at Covent Garden
August 2014
Play it again: how to make an opera’s second run a success
How do you make an old and over-performed opera feel fresh and new? Start by reexamining the score, writes conductor Tim Murray
May 2013
Weber: Der Freischütz – review
This live concert performance is a thrilling and moving testament to the late Sir Colin Davis, writes Fiona Maddocks
April 2013
Juan Diego Flórez and friends; Ksenija Sidorova and Thomas Gould – review
Letter: Colin Davis and a swaggering Don
Letter: Colin Davis in the 1960s
Letter: Colin Davis's route to a result
The Turn of the Screw – review
Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles'
Sir Colin Davis obituary
Sir Colin Davis, LSO's longest-serving conductor, dies aged 85
January 2013
Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 2000-2010 – review
Bringing the RCO story up to date, this seventh collection documents a transitional period but is nevertheless a joy, writes Andrew Clements
April 2012
Der Freischütz – review
Davis wonderfully sustains the oppressive atmosphere, so that when the powers of darkness are defeated, we feel we are in a better world, writes Tim Ashley
February 2012
Così fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop – review
A fine cast revels in a fizzing revival of Jonathan Miller's classic production of Così fan tutte, writes Stephen Pritchard
December 2011
Uchida/LSO/Davis – review
Colin Davis, now in his 80s, has conducted these Haydn and Mozart symphonies all his life, and the result had a glowing coherence and warmth, writes Martin Kettle
September 2011
The Proms 2011: week seven in review
Prom 67: Missa Solemnis
May 2011
Sir Colin Davis: 'You are of no account whatsoever'
The best of Sir Colin Davis on disc
March 2011
Delius: Appalachia/The Song of the High Hills – review
Bohemian rhapsody is the name of the game in this lustrous Delius recording by the BBC Chorus and Orchestra, writes Fiona Maddocks
