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Album: Katherine Priddy - The Eternal Rocks Beneath
The folk world is slowly coming out of its long pandemic slumber, with Sidmouth’s month-long festival starting in the midst of Storm Evert’s high-...
First Person: conductor Enrique Mazzola on Verdi's time...
It is difficult to know why some operas succeed while others remain...
Bagdad Café, Old Vic review - sweet but scattershot
A gorgeous song exists in search of a show to match over at Bagdad Café, the 1987 film that gave the world the...
theartsdesk at the Three Choirs Festival - Purcell, Gabriel...
King Arthur, as every schoolgirl knows, never actually existed, so it made perfect sense that the Gabrieli Consort’s Worcester Cathedral...
Oleanna, Arts Theatre review - Mamet on power and tragedy
Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. It seemed the right culinary equivalent to David Mamet, one of...
Album: Willy Mason - Already Dead
Already Dead’s opening cut is titled “Youth on a Spit”. As it unfolds, Willy Mason declares “I feel no pain I’ve already bled / You can’t...
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World review - a harrowing tal...
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World is the most harrowing film you are ever likely to watch, but don’t let that put you off. This was a...
Opera in Song, Opera Holland Park review – world-class singe...
Now that the summer opera-house companies have pulled off staged triumphs...
Album: Dot Allison - Heart-Shaped Scars
Scottish singer-songwriter Dorothy Allison pretty much defines cool. Her band One Dove was the first to snare Andrew Weatherall as producer after...