Alexandra Coghlan

Unobtrusively filmed, powerfully performed but still unsatisfying: LSO’s Bluebeard reviewed

Plus: a grown-up programme at the Barbican that did not need Katie Derham as an effusive onstage intermediary

Simon Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in Bluebeard at LSO St Luke's
  • Comments

  • Bluebeard’s Castle

    LSO St Luke’s, and available to watch on YouTube

  • Ian Bostridge & Sarah Connolly

    Barbican Hall

Already a subscriber? Log in

This article is for subscribers only

Subscribe today to get 3 months' delivery of the magazine, as well as online and app access, for only £3.

  • Weekly delivery of the magazine
  • Unlimited access to our website and app
  • Enjoy Spectator newsletters and podcasts
  • Explore our online archive, going back to 1828

Read next

Trending

Fraser Nelson

Reflections on 15 years in the editor’s chair

Fraser Nelson
From the magazine
In the late summer of 2009, Andrew Neil invited me to his villa in the Côte d’Azur but didn’t say why. I was mystified. I was then political editor of The Spectator and in eight years of working closely with Andrew, the then chairman, he’d never hinted that he saw me as an editor. I

Because you read about barbican

Also by Alexandra Coghlan

Latest

Comments

Join the debate for just £1 a month

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3.

Already a subscriber? Log in