Features & Interviews
Extract: England My England - Anglophilia Explained
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Are Anglophiles born or made? Or cultured in a medium of suet and sentimentality, romanticism and Marmite? Inexplicably, this question has gone begging, at least in the States. Perhaps American scholars deem the subject too frivolous to merit academic scrutiny in the same way that camp, kitsch, and cuteness had to wait for freelance intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Celeste Olalquiaga, and Daniel Harris to legitimise their study. Of course, the whiff of Toryism or just garden-variety snobbery...
theartsdesk Q&A: Kate Lindsey and Katharina Thoma on Glyndebourne's Ariadne auf Naxos
Saturday, 18 May 2013
What’s the perfect Glyndebourne opera? Mozart, of course, must have first and second places with Le nozze di Figaro – Michael Grandage’s lively production is revived again this season – and Così fan tutte. Then comes Amadeus’s greatest admirer, Richard Strauss, and Ariadne auf Naxos - his most experimental collaboration with his then-established house poet for Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier, Hugo von Hofmannsthal.The life-meets-art drama of a mythic opera seria to be staged in the palatial home...
The Leopard: 50 years on from Cannes
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
It took Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, melancholy last scion of a never very reproductive family, a lifetime to get round to...
Read more...Extract: Mariachi, Machetes, Meths - Manu Chao in...
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Lake Chapalá begins just south of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco. In case there’s any doubt we’re in Mexico, a mariachi band are propositioning...
Read more...theartsdesk at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Cheltenham is the Dubai of the Cotswolds: a modestly populated town of 100,000 with sufficient wealth and influence to attract disproportionately...
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Who was Dorothy Squires?
Monday, 06 May 2013
As a new play about her opens, an old showbiz friend recalls a complicated diva Read more... |
Clandestino: In Search of Manu Chao
Sunday, 05 May 2013
The author of the first book in English about the global activist superstar explains his obsession with a compelling, contradictory figure Read more... |
theartsdesk in Prague: Two Faces of Mucha
Sunday, 05 May 2013
The great Czech pioneer of art nouveau has a pair of shows, one of them curated by Andy Murray's coach Read more... |
Billy Liar at 50
Friday, 03 May 2013
A seminal British black comedy in a handsome new print Read more... |
Desperately Seeking the Exit: The Story of a West End Disaster
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
How a Madonna film mixed with Blondie's music sank, and gave birth to a one-man show Read more... |
Desperate: How a disaster was born
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
From the archive, this piece from 2007 recalls how a flop musical was conceived in hope Read more... |
theartsdesk in Austin, Texas: The Library with Everything
Sunday, 28 April 2013
A trip to the Harry Ransom Center's spectacular literary and visual archive Read more... |
The Resurrection of Conor McPherson
Saturday, 27 April 2013
As The Weir is revived, the ghost of booze no longer haunts the Irish playwright's work Read more... |
The Eagles at Sundance - History in the Making
Saturday, 27 April 2013
New documentary tells the 40-year story of the legendary Los Angeles band Read more... |
Turner Prize 2013 shortlist: Is David Shrigley an artist? and other thoughts
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Always interesting for who it leaves out, but at least this year's shortlist won't disappoint for familar names Read more... |
PUNK+ - Sheila Rock's portraits from the frontline
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Introducing the definitive collection of punk images by the American photographer who witnessed a revolution Read more... |
Opinion: Is acting now just for the privileged?
Thursday, 25 April 2013
How the dramatic arts are reacting to the Etonian insurgency Read more... |
Sundance London 2013: Preview
Monday, 22 April 2013
The film and music festival returns for its second year with an impressive line-up Read more... |
theartsdesk in Istanbul: City on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown?
Sunday, 21 April 2013
The arts and the economy might be prospering, but critics fear old Istanbul is turning into a new Dubai Read more... |
Canal Dreams: the Panama Film Festival
Sunday, 21 April 2013
A fledgling film festival in Latin America is proving a godsend for local audiences dominated by Hollywood Read more... |
BBC Proms 2013: Ring operas for a fiver each
Friday, 19 April 2013
The world's biggest music festival runs the gamut as ever, from Bach to Fazer, England to Azerbaijan Read more... |
'For him, maestro was an ironic term': Sir Colin Davis remembered
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
We ask some great classical performers what the conductor meant to them. And add our own memories Read more... |
Ayahs, lascars and munshis: staging The Empress
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Tanika Gupta introduces her new play for the RSC about the Asian presence in Victorian England Read more... |
Sir Colin Davis: 'He simply knew how Mozart should go'
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
The distinguished broadcaster and biographer Humphrey Burton pays tribute to the conductor who became his brother-in-law Read more... |
Sir Colin Davis, 1927-2013
Monday, 15 April 2013
All-time great British conductor who enjoyed an indian summer with the LSO Read more... |
Inspector Morse's Last Round
Sunday, 14 April 2013
As the young detective returns in Endeavour, we revisit this set report from Morse's final case Read more... |
theartsdesk in Lyons: A contemporary opera house taking a bold approach
Sunday, 14 April 2013
An opera festival of justice/injustice serves out its sentence in style Read more... |
theartsdesk in India: Endangered classical music, and aerialist dancers
Saturday, 13 April 2013
In Mumbai with Shakhar Kapur and dhrupad musicians and in Kerala with aerialists Read more... |
Newcomers triumph at BBC Music Magazine Awards
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Malaysian pianist steals the show performing three pieces from her CD 'Musical Toys' Read more... |
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