Sunday, October 15, 2017
From the return of St Vincent to Dr Seuss on stage, here is our pick of the best films, gigs, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMSaturday, October 7, 2017
Introducing our regular roundup of the best films, gigs, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance, including Blade Runner 2049, Little Mix and Dalí/Duchamp Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, June 14, 2015
Britten Studio, Snape, SuffolkPart two of Harrison Birtwistle’s Greek myth double bill lacks The Corridor’s dramatic impact, but performers and production are exceptional and beautifully…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMSunday, May 10, 2015
Coliseum, LondonThe comic business is deftly done, and the cast is a good one – with Claudia Boyle a standout as Mabel – but director Mike Leigh offers few insights or surprises in his o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AMSunday, August 31, 2014
King's theatre, EdinburghWith its unique instruments and otherworldly rituals, Harry Partch's opera is strange, beautiful and utterly compelling Harry Partch how Heiner Goebbels bought Del…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMFriday, August 29, 2014
Festival theatre, Edinburgh Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Opera make Berlioz's magnificent opera seem routine Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMThursday, November 7, 2013
Spence/Stout/Gadd/Suart/Opie/Thomas/Evans/Wyn-Rogers/BBC NOW & Chorus/Macdonald(Chandos, two CDs)Even at the height of their success together, Arthur Sullivan's partnership with WS Gilbert w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMFriday, July 5, 2013
Parabola Arts Centre, CheltenhamFour years ago, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group introduced David Sawer's Rumpelstiltskin, which he designated a ballet, but defied precise categorisation.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMSunday, May 26, 2013
Seven Wagner operas are performed at the Proms, Aldeburgh and Covent Garden celebrate the Benjamin Britten centenary and Glyndebourne goes for French baroqueSongs from the Same EarthNine wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Barbican, LondonThough its origins go back more than a decade earlier to a talk he gave in New York, John Cage's Lecture on Nothing was included in his first and most important collection of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMFriday, April 6, 2012
Minerva, ChichesterIt was Olivier's legendary production of this play 50 years ago that put the new Chichester theatre on the map, and there are times when Jeremy Herrin's production seems l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonInternational opera houses such as Covent Garden need fail-safe productions of works that feature in most seasons, in which multiple casts can be accommodated as unf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PMFriday, June 24, 2011
Coliseum, LondonNico Muhly's first opera may have its origins in a true story from Manchester in 2003, but, as presented in Craig Lucas's libretto, Two Boys seems far removed from any kind o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMTuesday, June 7, 2011
Barbican, LondonIf anyone can claim a tradition of performing Candide, it is surely the London Symphony Orchestra. It was with the LSO and its Chorus that Leonard Bernstein conducted hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMFriday, May 6, 2011
Coliseum, LondonAt first sight it seems really perverse to invite Terry Gilliam to cut his teeth as an opera director on a work that isn't really an opera at all.Berlioz labelled it a "drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30PMFriday, April 22, 2011
Symphony Hall, BirminghamPerhaps Klaus Obermaier's digitised presentation of Stravinsky's ballet seemed more innovative in 2007 than it does now that 3D movies have become commonplace. Oberm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PMTuesday, April 5, 2011
A new music-theatre piece celebrates the life of the novelist Anaïs Nin, while the CBSO completes its Mahler cycle with Das Lied von der Erde under the baton of Simon RattleAnaïs NinLouis …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMMonday, March 21, 2011
Royal Academy of Music, LondonMore than a decade after saying he had written his final theatre piece, the chance to compose a work for and about students has lured Peter Maxwell Davies back …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28PMThursday, February 17, 2011
Coliseum, LondonSince it was created at the Coliseum in 1999, Nikolaus Lehnhoff's staging of Wagner's final opera has been seen across Europe and the US, but it has not been revived by Engli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMSunday, December 12, 2010
Royal Opera House, LondonTannhäuser has been described as the "most boring of all great operas", and it remains a work that separates the truly committed Wagnerites from the merely interest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMSunday, November 14, 2010
Barbican, LondonLike so many of his works, the songcycle György Kurtág created from settings of tiny extracts from Franz Kafka's letters and diaries adds up to far more than the sum of its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:16PM 
