Arts
Snow blindness
Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden has not received a professional staging in the UK for 60 years. Think about that for…
Accentuate the positive
How does a town like Hungerford, tucked into the Berkshire hills, with its sleepy canal running through it and high…
Accentuate the positive
How does a town like Hungerford, tucked into the Berkshire hills, with its sleepy canal running through it and high…
Adult entertainment
The mid-life crisis novel, I think it’s fair to say, is traditionally a male form. But in Louise Doughty’s Apple…
Ideal homes
Artists, poets and philosophers have not paid much attention to Milton Keynes …although comedians have. This urban experiment has been…
Acting with a capital ‘A’
Let’s be clear: Jackie is a better performance than it is a film, although I suspect the performance will carry…
Great leaps forward
In the 1940s Lucian Freud took another young painter, Sandra Blow, up to the top of a bombed church in…
Safe and sound
This week the Southbank Centre began its ‘Belief and Beyond Belief’ festival — a series of concerts and talks claiming…
The xx: I See You
The xx is a trio of Londoners whose eponymous first album, released in 2009, has defined the way pop music…
Death rattle
The Barbican website warns us that Ligeti’s opera Le grand macabre ‘contains very strong language and adult themes’. The strong…
Spot the ball
The purest form of radio is probably sports commentating, creating pictures in the mind purely through language so that by…
Dual control
Revolting (Tuesdays) is the BBC2 comedy series that spawned the now-infamous sketch ‘Real Housewives of Isis’. It has been watched…
Remembrance of things past
The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Now it arrives on…
Dress worn by Yvonne Kenny as Armida in Rinaldo
If you think you haven’t got anything to wear, then Opera Australia may be able to help you. At the…
Ideal homes
Artists, poets and philosophers have not paid much attention to Milton Keynes …although comedians have. This urban experiment has been…
Acting with a capital ‘A’
Let’s be clear: Jackie is a better performance than it is a film, although I suspect the performance will carry…
Great leaps forward
In the 1940s Lucian Freud took another young painter, Sandra Blow, up to the top of a bombed church in…
Safe and sound
This week the Southbank Centre began its ‘Belief and Beyond Belief’ festival — a series of concerts and talks claiming…
Safe and sound
This week the Southbank Centre began its ‘Belief and Beyond Belief’ festival — a series of concerts and talks claiming…
Remembrance of things past
The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Now it arrives on…
Remembrance of things past
The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Now it arrives on…
Death rattle
The Barbican website warns us that Ligeti’s opera Le grand macabre ‘contains very strong language and adult themes’. The strong…
Death rattle
The Barbican website warns us that Ligeti’s opera Le grand macabre ‘contains very strong language and adult themes’. The strong…
Spot the ball
The purest form of radio is probably sports commentating, creating pictures in the mind purely through language so that by…
Spot the ball
The purest form of radio is probably sports commentating, creating pictures in the mind purely through language so that by…
