Erica Jeal is a Deputy Editor at The Guardian. She specializes in arts and entertainment, focusing on music genres, concerts and festivals, as well as plays and musicals. Erica's work has been featured in The Guardian, Yahoo News UK, The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, and MSN.
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Erica Jeal’s focus is predominantly on providing reviews within the classical music and entertainment domain. She concentrates on evaluating performances, albums, opera, and concerts. If you have upcoming classical music events or album releases that would benefit from a review or if there are notable trends in the industry worth reviewing, reaching out to Erica could be beneficial.
Given her expertise in critiquing musical performances and albums, she may be interested in receiving press releases about new album launches or concert tours featuring classical musicians. Offering access to exclusive previews of such events can also enhance your pitch to her.
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‘Who can turn skies back and begin again?” That's the question the fisherman Peter Grimes asks the universe at the close of his brief aria in Act
By: Erica Jeal
Amid the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of US independence, Brent Michael Davids ' Requiem for America brings an abrupt and necessary shift of perspective.
By: Erica Jeal
In May 1901, Wigmore Hall's inaugural concert began, of course, with God Save the King – the words sounding novel to an audience who, until a few months earlier, had been singing it for Queen Victoria.
Read this exciting story from The Guardian May 27, 2026 issue. Anniversary gala concert Wigmore Hall, London
It's hard to think of a single figure who has been so influential on contemporary UK classical music for so long as Colin Matthews , who turned 80 earlierthis year.
By: Erica Jeal
Louisa Muller’s richly detailed production of Verdi’s tragedy is elevated by Madison Leonard’s magnetic Violetta and Douglas Boyd’s musical direction that reinvigorates the familiar score
By: Erica Jeal
Day breaks in Paris at the end of act one of La Traviata – and, at Garsington Opera's theatre, half-open to the surrounding Chiltern countryside, the birds provide the dawn chorus.
By: Erica Jeal
Lahav Shani's eight-year tenure at the helm of the Rotterdam Philharmonic is coming to a close – he becomes chief conductor at the Munich Philharmonic
By: Erica Jeal
Sinéad O’Neill’s production is persuasive and Beth Taylor’s performace as Orlando is extraordinary in this tale of unrequited love, madness and magic
By: Erica Jeal
The woodland outside Longborough's theatre, deep in the Cotswolds, sneaks inside and on to the stage for its season-opening production of Orlando.
