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Precious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressing
Precious
Theatre
Ian McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignant
Waiting for Godot
Theatre
Slight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding high
Enron
Utterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treat
Though 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hour
We went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiance
London,
05.02.10
Antony Walker's assured conducting in Lucia Di Lammermoor complements Alden's direction, making for a constantly gripping evening's musical theatre
04.02.10
The New York Philharmonic gave the first of a pair of concerts under its new music director, Alan Gilbert.
01.02.10
Who would have thought the Festival Hall would ever have been packed for a whole series of concerts featuring Schoenberg?
28.01.10
Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä launched a four-concert cycle of the symphonies with the LPO.
27.01.10
Takács Quartet's unanimity is based not on total equality but on the integration of individual colour and character.
25.01.10
Leif Segerstam had a strongly individual approach to Mahler's Fifth Symphony with the Philharmonia
25.01.10
Financial scandal, the venality of the newly rich and famous, the shallow pursuit of hedonism: The Rake's Progress might almost have been written for...
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13.01.10
Valery Gergiev was in total command from first note to last in Elektra
21.12.09
Andris Nelsons’s consummate control of the score’s subtle nuances and surging passions makes something very special of what might have been a mundane...
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18.12.09
Der Rosenkavalier is opulent in visual spectacle but is impoverished in imagination
14.12.09
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra unsurprisingly attracted full houses for their weekend appearances under Mariss Jansons.
07.12.09
George Crumb's Star-Child was the climax of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion day.
02.12.09
He may have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of his first appearance with the Philharmonia but Maazel is often content to coast.
30.11.09
Handel's Messiah, with its Christian pageantry and Hallelujah Chorus, is, for better or worse, part of the national fabric.
23.11.09
This feeble, unimaginative production at the Royal Opera House is a disappointing pitch for the festive market that’s unlikely to win converts to...
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19.11.09
Under the title "Between Two Worlds", Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO are presenting the work of the remarkable composer, Faust
12.11.09
Bryn Terfel, Britain's leading bass-baritone, promoting his new disc Bad Boys, played Festival Hall.
09.11.09
ENO’s coupling of Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is unconventional but inspired.
04.11.09
Not content to rest on her laurels, the American soprano Renée Fleming has been investigating unfamiliar repertoire in recent years.
02.11.09
Known primarily as the composer of the alternative national anthem, Rule, Britannia, Thomas Arne also deserves to be remembered for his opera...
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