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Frances Forbes-Carbines is an art and opera critic, researcher and creative strategist based in the UK. She studied at Bristol University and at the Sorbonne, and has worked for a wide range of arts and cultural organisations.
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Frances Forbes-Carbines explains why reading Eleanor Chan's new book 'Duet: An Artful History of Music' is similar to having an animated conversation with a particularly sparky, clever and knowledgeable friend
Frances Forbes-Carbines listens to Andrea Bocelli presented using innovative sound technology to an audience of twenty thousand
Frances Forbes-Carbines strongly recommends Puccini's 'Turandot' at Covent Garden
Frances Forbes-Carbines finds Giuseppe Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' at Covent Garden an incredible production of a glorious revenge-fest
Frances Forbes-Carbines finds Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera 'Festen' far from easy viewing
Frances Forbes-Carbines is moved by the singing and the theatricality of English National Opera's production of 'Mary, Queen of Scots'
Frances Forbes-Carbines experiences Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' at English National Opera, praising the music but not the costumes or the set
Frances Forbes-Carbines, in her first feature for Classical Music Daily, gives English National Opera's revival of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance' an enthusiastic thumbs up