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An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
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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27.10.09
Charles Mackerras conjures a dark, sinister quality that perfectly complements the oppressive visual picture in Turn of the Screw.
19.10.09
Nobody could accuse Ravel of resorting to slapstick in his one-act opera L’Heure Espagnole.
09.10.09
You can see why ENO might have thought it a bright idea to hire the West End director Rupert Goold for its new Turandot.
30.09.09
Tristan und Isolde is austerely monochromatic, Johannes Leiacker's sets (starkly lit by Olaf Winter) evoking the realms of night and day.
28.09.09
For all its popularity in recent times, Mahler's Symphony No 2 (Resurrection) cannot ever be entered into lightly
21.09.09
No promoter feels safe until Valery Gergiev's actually on the rostrum but once there, his absorption and charisma are all-encompassing.
18.09.09
György Ligeti’s only opera, Le Grand Macabre, is an enthralling, scatological, ravishing rhapsody on the theme of mortality
16.09.09
The new Don Carlo, Jonas Kaufmann, is not a disappointment: his ringing, ardent tone and rugged good looks win all hearts
10.09.09
On Tuesday night the chill winds of the Hebrides blew through Peter Maxwell Davies’s account of Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave Overture
09.09.09
An intriguing film throws new light on the vitriolic feud of opera’s first family — but the truth about their commitment to Hitler is yet to be...
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21.08.09
It may not be an opera but Handel's oratorio, Samson, bristled with drama at the Proms
20.08.09
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov put in a fiercely compelling performance of Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony at the Proms
19.08.09
There is no other ensemble in the world like the Budapest Festival Orchestra: their sound and character are unique
14.08.09
The Rite of Spring unleashes the full horror of the primitivism that erupted with the First World War.
13.08.09
The Prom given by The Sixteen under Harry Christophers celebrated the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death with two of his most popular pieces.
