Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Search jobs
Sign in

Osvaldo Golijov

August 2024

  • La Pasión Según San Marcos.

    La Pasión Según San Marcos review – Golijov’s riot of rhythm and colour gets Edinburgh off to a thrilling start

    Osvaldo Golijov’s remarkable take on Bach’s St Matthew Passion exhilarates with its singular mix of textures, styles and movement, brought together into a triumphant mass by conductor Joana Carneiro

September 2023

  • Jaquelina Livieri as Margarita Xirgu and Hanna Hipp as Federico García Lorca in Ainadamar.

    Ainadamar review – a defiant and impassioned defence of freedom

    Welsh National Opera mount Osvaldo Golijov’s opera about the assassinated Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca – a fiercely evocative piece with the feel of a passion play

November 2022

  • Julieth Lozano (Nuria), Lauren Fagan (Margarita Xirgu) and ensemble in Ainadamar. Scottish Opera 2022. Credit James Glosso

    Ainadamar review – vibrant and deft production brings Golijov’s opera to the UK

    Deborah Colker’s staging of the Argentinian composer’s tale of the poet Lorca is clever and effective, with Scottish Opera’s orchestra capturing the musical colours and the score’s collage of influences

December 2020

  • L to r: Wu Tong, Nora Fischer, Osvaldo Golijov and Biella da Costa on Falling Out of Time.

    Golijov: Falling Out of Time review – meditation on grief is an allusive patchwork

    Inspired by a novel of a father seeking connection with a dead child, Golijov’s work has a multitude of stylistic elements and instruments but not enough emotional heft

March 2016

  • Alpesh Chauhan with the City of Birmingham Symphony.

    CBSO/Chauhan review – new Golijov cello concerto given fine debut

    Alpesh Chauhan led a sympathetic performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s sentimental work Azul

May 2012

  • BBCSSO/Runnicles – review

    From the sumptuous opening cello theme of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony to the finale's noble fanfares, this was a spacious, tender and beautifully poised performance by the BBCSSO, writes Kate Molleson

May 2008

  • BBCSSO/Spano

    Old Fruitmarket, City Halls, Glasgow

April 2008

  • That's enough gags

  • 'I love it when music brings people to blows'

November 2007

  • Music blog
    Classical music feels the Latino heat

    There's a new infusion of energy from a continent that has, for too long, been overlooked by the buttoned-up establishment

July 2007

  • Golijov: Oceana; Tenebrae; Three Songs, Kronos Quartet/ Sousa/ Upshaw/ Atlanta SO/ Spano

  • Minghella to write libretto for new Met production

May 2007

  • Score in a minute

    With talents like Thomas Ades, classical music is more exciting than it has been for a generation. Fans of Radiohead or CSS don't know what they're missing, says Peter Culshaw.

August 2006

  • Golijov: Ainadamar, Upshaw/ O'Connor/ Rivera/ Atlanta SO/ Spano

    (Deutsche Grammophon)

March 2006

  • Raise a glass to merry England

    Classical: English National Opera seem to have finally found a hit in Vaughan Williams's rollicking retelling of Falstaff's love life. Anthony Holden reports.

February 2006

  • La Pasíon Ségun San Marcos

    Barbican, London

  • Osvaldo Golijov, Ayre

    Peter Culshaw on the classical composer whose mix'n'match approach proves electrifying.

  • Osvaldo Golijov programme

    Barbican, London

January 2006

  • Golijov's gospel truths

    Hailed as the first great new composer of this century, Osvaldo Golijov draws from many cultures to produce his highly original and thrilling works, says Peter Conrad. So why did he balk when asked to reimagine the Passion?

February 2003

  • Golijov: Last Round; Lullaby and Doina, etc

    Andrew Clements on a radical fusion of Latin American and Jewish traditions.

Explore more on these topics
  翻译：