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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,
Kieron Quirke's rating
Reader rating
Wonderful: the Little Mermaid with a Slavic twist
To Glyndebourne, for Dvorak’s rather wonderful Rusalka. Storywise, it's essentially the Little Mermaid with a Slavic twist: the mermaid being the water-nymph of the title.
Melly Still’s production at first can’t decide whether Rusalka’s world of naiads and dryads is scary, comic or enchanting. Most cross with the designer should be Mischa Schelomianski as Rusalka’s dad Vodnik, a Fungus the Bogeyman lookalike who’s just impossible to take seriously.
Conducting, Jiri Belohlavek enjoys Dvorak’s folkish tunes and some Romantic effects so typical you’d snicker if you weren’t sighing.
Larissa Diadkova is a superb witch, despicably evil in her homeliness.
In the title role, Ana Maria Martinez has a beautiful, steely soprano, though not quite the variety or presence to ace her show arias. She has, however, a great chemistry with Brandon Jovanovich’s Prince, and their final deathly duet is deeply, deeply moving. Topping.
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