So the Royal Opera had assembled a dream cast, conductor (Edward Gardner) and director (Richard Jones). The only question ...

A wonderful release, in other words; the contents sufficient to satisfy anyone’s classical needs for years. It’s also very ...

When a piece of music is heard for the first time ever, there’s always the delicious hope that, just by being there, an ...

This album is SHORT. At 27 minutes and just five tracks, one might wonder why Julienne Dessagne (this is a solo act) didn’t call it an EP. But maybe this is a good way to go in the trenches of the ...

Manic Street Preachers’ earnest and literate pretentiousness is both their Achilles Heel and their superpower. Their greatest ...

Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical book Les Années charts a woman’s life across time and space, history and memory, through ...

Cyndi Lauper was preceded onstage by a brief video that zipped through her career, which she drily declared was just in case ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...

Bowling For Soup are celebrating their iconic album, A Hangover You Don’t Deserve, on a fun filled, energetic tour for its ...

Greek myths are all over theatre stages at the moment, their fierce, vengeful stories offering unnerving parallels with ...

For all its passing British sea shanties and folksongs, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony does Walt Whitman’s determinedly ...