Sophia Lambton

Sophia Lambton became a professional classical music critic at the age of 17 when she began writing for Musical Opinion, Britain’s oldest music magazine. Since then she has contributed to The Guardian, Bachtrack, musicOMH, BroadwayWorld, BBC Music Magazine and OperaWire. She spent twelve years conducting research to create The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography, which won the 2024 ARSC Award for Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music.

Elsewhere she is a novelist. The first five volumes of her saga The Crooked Little Pieces were released by The Crepuscular Press between 2022 and 2025.

Her Substack Crepuscular Music comprises classical music and opera reviews that seek to capture the ephemeral escapism of live performance. You

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