Obituary: British Composer and Writer Kit Hesketh-Harvey Dies, Aged 65

On Feb. 1, 2023, British composer and writer Kit Hesketh-Harvey passed away at the age of 65. Born on April 30, 1957, in Zomba, Malawi, Hesketh-Harvey was a senior chorister at Canterbury Cathedral before going on to attend Clare College, Cambridge on a choral scholarship. From 1980 to 1987 he was a staff producer for the BBC-TV Music and Arts {…}

Jul 21, 2021

Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko

(Photo: Marc Brenner) The world of spies, subterfuge, and assassination has long been grist to the operatic mill. Scarpia runs the secret police in “Tosca”; Paolo poisons Boccanegra in Verdi’s Venetian drama of political intrigue; Leonora infiltrates a prison disguised as a man in “Fidelio”. So a contemporary tale like that of dissident and former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned {…}