New Statesman - <![CDATA[Peter Conrad]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/peter_conrad en <![CDATA[Crazy idealism]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2007/04/glass-music-change-agent http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2007/04/glass-music-change-agent Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad Philip Glass believes that music is an agent of change. He is expecting too much of himself

]]> <![CDATA[Too hot to Handel]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2007/02/opera-capricious-handel-human http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2007/02/opera-capricious-handel-human Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad The composer's operas delight in the the crazy, capricious side of human nature

]]> <![CDATA[Lessons from America]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2007/01/opera-met-music-york-qin http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2007/01/opera-met-music-york-qin Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad The Metropolitan Opera in New York is battling for new audiences, enlisting celebrity support and staging daring productions, writes Peter Conrad

]]> <![CDATA[Love remembered]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/2007/01/hunt-lieberson-lorraine-neruda http://www.newstatesman.com/2007/01/hunt-lieberson-lorraine-neruda Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad Neruda Songs Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Nonesuch

]]> <![CDATA[Divas and drama]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200612180033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200612180033 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad

]]> <![CDATA[A mythic creature]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200612110031 http://www.newstatesman.com/200612110031 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad Carmen's feminine power entices audiences from Covent Garden to Cape Town

]]> <![CDATA[Topsy-turvy world]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200611200033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200611200033 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad Gilbert and Sullivan blew a raspberry at Victorian society's prized institutions

]]> <![CDATA[ Hitting high notes]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200610160040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200610160040 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad Matilde di Shabran; La Fille du régiment Juan Diego Flórez Universal/Decca

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaires' club]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200610090034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200610090034 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad Peter Conrad meets the new eastern European art elite

]]> <![CDATA[Loud, lewd and nasty]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200609180035 http://www.newstatesman.com/200609180035 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT Peter Conrad Forget the liberal blather: the makers of Gaddafi are as cynical as Simon Cowell

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