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European Festivals 2010 Round-Up

Ismene Brown Sunday, 06 June 2010

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English National Opera, 2010-11 Season

theartsdesk Tuesday, 20 April 2010

English National Opera’s 2010-11 season includes 10 new productions, including ENO premieres of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia and Handel’s Radamisto. There will be two new...

Glyndebourne Opera, 2010 Season

Ismene Brown Monday, 25 January 2010

Glyndebourne Opera's headline news this summer is its first-ever production of Britten's Billy Budd, to be directed by Donmar Warehouse director Michael Grandage in his own first venture...

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Sonics - High Time

“Theirs is truly rock in extremis, a précis of the youthful impetuosity and cathartic chaos at the heart of real rock ’n roll.”

This extract...

28 Years Later review - an unsentimental, undead education

The 23 years since 28 Days Later and especially those since Danny Boyle’s soulful encapsulation of Britain’s best spirit at the 2012...

RNCM International Diploma Artists, BBC Philharmonic, MediaC...

Two concerts in the BBC Philharmonic’s series in their own studio form the climax of studies at the Royal Northern College of Music for a small...

Prost, BBC 4 review - life and times of the driver they call...

With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...

Classical CDs: Bells, whistles and bowing techniques

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Album: Yungblud - Idols
Yungblud has declared his fourth album, Idols, to be a “a project with no limitations”. This is quite a claim.
So, what musical...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St Marti...
In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...

Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...
After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...

4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu
Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly unimaginative to mark the...

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The Phoenician Scheme review - further adventures... Benicio del Toro's megalomaniac tycoon heads a star-studded cast

Album: Morcheeba - Escape the Chaos More of the same from the trip hop perennials but delivered with tunes and...

Owen, Manchester Camerata, Takács-Nagy, Stoller Ha... Another breath of fresh air in the chamber orchestra’s approach to the...

Mongrel review - deeply empathetic filmmaking from... Artful direction and vivid detail of rural life from Wei Liang Chiang

Mrs Warren's Profession, Garrick Theatre revi... Shaw's once-shocking play pairs Imelda Staunton with her real-life...

Faust, Royal Opera review - pure theatre in this s... A Faust that smuggles its damnation under theatrical spectacle and excess

Music Reissues Weekly: Johnnie Taylor - Who's... Proof there’s more to the soul stylist than the first big hit

Batiashvili, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - Frenc... Szymanowski’s fantasy more vague than Berlioz’s, but both light up the hall

Album: Anna Lapwood - Firedove Broad repertoire and a strong concept

Dara Ó Briain, Soho Theatre Walthamstow review - m... Search for his birth father takes a few turns

Dennis, RSNO, Dunedin Consort, Søndergård, Usher H... Ancient Scottish musical traditions explored through the lens of today,...

Blu-ray: Strange New Worlds - Science Fiction at D... Eye-popping Cold War sci-fi epics from East Germany, superbly remastered...

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Eureka Day, Old Vic review - fun if not entirely f...
Dissent in the ranks in uber-timely American comedy

Album: Aksak Maboul - Une aventure de VV (Songspie...
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Album: Cher - Christmas
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Album: PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs?
A compelling balance between absurdity and sincerity

Gallery: The Drowned Man of Punchdrunk
Stunning images from a new book celebrating the site-specific company...

Blu-ray: After Hours
Martin Scorsese's excruciating but delicious black comedy returns

The Elephant Man, Theatre Royal, Haymarket
Bradley Cooper's star power transfers to the stage

Under the Fig Trees review - a sensual day in the...
A loving look at vibrant young women flirting, working and fighting...

The Kitchen, National Theatre
Arnold Wesker's work drama is a tasty morsel in Bijan Sheibani's...

theartsdesk at the Holland Festival
Dutchness, audio-jungle, dirty minds and Dunsinane at one of Europe's...

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Murder Is Easy, BBC One review - was this journey...
Dame Agatha's tidy thriller gets ideas above its station

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