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
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  • Bluebeard’s Castle

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

  • Ian Bostridge & Sarah Connolly

    Barbican Hall

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