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Will Alice be weird in Wonderland?

19.08.09
The world's hottest choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, is to make a full-length ballet for Covent Garden out of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland... more

Meet Valery Gergiev - the total conductor

23.06.09
Valery Gergiev reveals the missing link between Richard Wagner and Dutch football as he prepares to bring his revamped Ring cycle to London.... more

Best Christmas shows in London

04.12.08
Clive Rowe squeezes into the dame's dress at Hackney Empire, Elton John returns to the O2 and Angelika Kirchschlager hits the high notes in Hansel and Gretel.... more

Adès pulls the strings

04.11.08
An attentive Kings Place audience burst into whoops at the close of an all-Stravinsky recital which launched this week’s Aldeburgh on Tour series.... more

Music

08.10.08
Live music, be it opera or rock festivals, is proving more popular than ever — and is offering a desperately needed financial lifeline. London remains the heartbeat of the industry. ... more

The gold Standard party

07.10.08
The most influential people in London gathered at the launch of the Evening Standard's glossy magazine The 1000: London's Most Influential People 2008... more

Dennis and menace for Adès

28.07.08
Thomas Adès mainly Russian Prom looked rather mainstream for his quirky eclecticism but maybe we should always expect the unexpected.... more

Serenades at the Serpentine

18.07.08
Frank Gehry's Pavilion will be serenaded into a state of openness by Thomas Adès, accompanied by visuals from the video artist Tal Rosner.... more

The 25 must-see Proms

16.07.08
The 2008 Proms caters for all tastes, prejudices and proclivities as never before. Here are the moments you can't miss.... more

Hell comes to Hollywood in Rake's Progress

08.07.08
Robert Lepage's production of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress boasts such an ingenious conceit as to annihilate quibbles.... more

Musical adventure at Aldeburgh Festival

24.06.08
The audienceat the Aldeburgh Festival sat enthralled, as if collectively stunned by a most Gallic coup de foudre.... more

Saucy libretto in Powder Her Face

12.06.08
Rebecca Bottone, Alan Ewing and Iain Paton deserve medals for characterful ingenuity and vocal prowess in Powder Her Face.... more

An innovative performance

29.04.08
The world premiere of Thomas Adès’s In Seven Days: Piano Concerto with Moving Image was a triumph, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Ether 08 merges art with technology

07.04.08
From the unveiling of Goldfrapp's album launch to the world premiere of In Seven Days, here is a guide to the highlights of this year's Ether festival at the Southbank Centre.... more

Eclectic line-up for Ether Festival

03.03.08
The Ether Festival 2008 brings together music and technology, finding common threads between pop, jazz and classical musicians.... more

Double dose of brilliance

30.08.07
Both Mariss Jansons and Oliver Knussen put in five-star performances at the Albert Hall.... more

Opera survives in concert

21.08.07
An exquisite balance of weight and detail, Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle proves opera can survive in concert.... more

Quartet display intensity

12.07.07
The Brodsky Quartet, with guest leader Mia Cooper, played with nobility and intensity and held the audience in silent concentration... more

Piano master in right key

30.05.07
Next month Alfred Brendel, under the baton of Christoph von Dohnanyi, will interpret Beethoven's piano concerto no 3 with the Philharmonia. ... more

The Southbank light show

23.05.07
Lily Cole and Thandie Newton have attended a Vogue party to mark the forthcoming reopening of the Southbank Centre, after two years of redevelopment.... more

He plays the piano too

18.04.07
Thomas Adès showed he is equally compelling as composer and pianist in the penultimate concert of his festival, Traced Overhead.... more

New light on old songs

04.04.07
If the mark of a creative genius is to confront the familiar and show it in a new light, then Thomas Adès is such a genius.... more

Mesmerising Adès is moving on

26.03.07
Older than Mozart and Schubert when cut off in their prime, it doesn't seem long since Thomas Adès was the bright star of the younger generation.... more

Adès proves he's the real thing

13.03.07
Thomas Adès's first full-scale opera, The Tempest, returns to Covent Garden as an assured, fully matured work with many of the reservations evident on first hearing banished.... more

The Tempest returns

09.03.07
Thomas Adès returns to the Royal Opera House with his adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, the work that established him as the finest young opera composer in Britain.... more

Rattle traces some great inspiration

08.03.07
With two giants of British music-making coming together, it is little surprise the Barbican Hall audience was treated to a glorious concert.... more

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