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Hot Tickets - Weekend gigs

19.08.11
Here are the biggest gigs in the capital this weekend...... more

Chart-topping waitress won't give up her day job

01.08.11
21-year-old chart topping classical music artist Laura Wright refuses to quit her day job as a waitress at the City's busy Northbank restaurant... more

Up close and personal with Nell Bryden

09.02.11
New York Blues and Country singer Nell Bryden feels quite at home playing to a sold out crowd but she will perform an intimate acoustic set on Feb 23... more

Concert for Care scores for charity

19.10.10
Film composers are often shadowy figures lurking in the background. But for once they came out in force for Concert for Care... more

Countdown to Christmas dates for your diary

19.10.10
Sam Wylie-Harris counts down to Christmas with a look at just a few of the fun, festive activities being lined up... more

Great ideas for half-term fun

19.10.10
It’s not just kids who get to enjoy the school holiday — there are great activities in the capital and beyond for all ages this month... more

No sound of music for Julie Andrews

10.05.10
It was telling that Julie Andrews’s return to the London stage after 30 years began without her. ... more

Freddy Kempf calms a storm

14.04.10
It’s a quarter of a century since Freddy Kempf made his public debut at the Festival Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.... more

Top of the Popes on Vatican CD

11.11.09
Pope Benedict XVI is hoping to top the charts this Christmas with the release of an album at the end of this month... more

Strictly glamour as David Walliams and Kate Moss take to the floor

28.09.09
There's always a couple of jokers on the dance floor at weddings. At this bash they just happened to be Kate Moss and David Walliams... more

Triumph or disaster – the thrill of the first night

12.06.09
With Phèdre opening at the National Theatre last night and The King and I this weekend, one actor involved gives an insider’s view of ‘staring into the abyss’ ... more

Master Luke, I appear not to know the plot of Star Wars ...

06.04.09
He has the rare honour of appearing in all six of the epic Star Wars movies, but Anthony Daniels, also known as the gold "droid" C-3PO, admits he has never really understood the plot... more

Jose Carreras to sing with Faryl Smith at Hampton Court Festival

30.03.09
Teenage singing sensation Faryl Smith will perform a duet with one of the Three Tenors at the Hampton Court Festival... more

CDs of the week

13.02.09
Morrissey has lost his swagger in Years of Refusal, Empire of the Sun's record is glossy electric pop and Tim Garland takes risks.... more

Mahler's dance of death misses the heartstrings

15.01.09
You don't have to be a devotee of Bernstein's self-lacerating approach to feel that something was missing from the RPO's production of Gatti.... more

Hurrah - now we can stop talking up house prices

29.08.08
Even now, those in the property market can't quite find the words for failure on this scale in the housing market... more

End of an era for Gatti

26.08.08
Fire and concentration made explosive magic of Daniele Gatti's last Prom as music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.... more

Spoilt for sounds in SW7

20.06.08
People love to complain about how expensive London is, but Richard Godwin reveals one of the capital's best opportunities to see great music free: tomorrow's Exhibition Road Music Day.... more

O2 goes classical with pop opera

29.04.08
Featuring more than 250 performers, light projections and fireworks, “pop opera” Carmina Burana will take over the 02 arena in January.... more

O2 goes classical with pop opera

29.04.08
A performance of "pop opera" Carmina Burana will be the first in a series of classical events at the O2 arena... more

Kenwood House's long hot summer

17.03.08
Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson, opera singer Katherine Jenkins and jazz star Diana Krall will all be in the line-up at Kenwood House this summer... more

Kenwood House's long hot summer

17.03.08
Brian Wilson, opera singer Katherine Jenkins and jazz star Diana Krall will all be in the line-up at Kenwood House this summer.... more

Nige puts a 'cor-blimey' into Elgar

13.03.08
Nigel Kennedy is back and in blazing form, giving the crowd at Festival Hall a peerless account of the Violin Concerto.... more

Heroine takes a plunge into this thrilling Tosca

29.02.08
This Tosca reaches a totally different audience from the usual ENO or Covent Garden crowd - unpretentious and enthusiastic to enjoy a good show.... more

Autopilot Carreras battles with overhead Boeings

06.06.07
Once of the famous Three Tenors, Jose Carreras battled aircraft noise as he sang outdoors to open the Hampton Court Palace Festival... more

Play pianissimo, orchestras told

01.06.07
New European Union regulations on noise in the workplace could soon mean that orchestras will be forced to play more quietly.... more

Geisha with a fiery flutter

26.02.07
There has been much debate about whether Madam Butterfly is racist or not but no one watching this production at the Royal Albert Hall could mistake where Puccini's sympathies lay. ... more


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