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 01:12PMIntroducing 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 04:12AMBritten 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 11:20AMColiseum, 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 07:38AMKing'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 09:50AMFestival theatre, Edinburgh Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Opera make Berlioz's magnificent opera seem routine Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMSpence/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 05:00PMParabola 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 12:36PMSeven 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 02:30PMBarbican, 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 01:16PMMinerva, 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 12:55PMRoyal 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 01:01PMColiseum, 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 08:06PMBarbican, 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 01:28PMColiseum, 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 07:30PMSymphony 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 12:59PMA 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 03:00PMRoyal 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 02:28PMColiseum, 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 12:07PMRoyal 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 12:49PMBarbican, 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…
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