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Will Alice be weird in Wonderland?

2009-08-19T09:22:34Z

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

Meet Valery Gergiev - the total conductor

2009-06-23T08:52:52Z

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

Best Christmas shows in London

2008-12-04T11:30:17Z

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.

Ad�s pulls the strings

2008-11-04T00:00:00Z

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.

Music

2008-10-02T11:26:16Z

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.

The gold Standard party

2008-10-07T08:05:57Z

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

Dennis and menace for Ad�s

2008-07-27T23:00:00Z

Thomas Ad�s mainly Russian Prom looked rather mainstream for his quirky eclecticism but maybe we should always expect the unexpected.

Serenades at the Serpentine

2008-07-17T23:00:00Z

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

The 25 must-see Proms

2008-07-16T09:10:17Z

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

Hell comes to Hollywood in Rake's Progress

2008-07-07T23:00:00Z

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

Musical adventure at Aldeburgh Festival

2008-06-23T23:00:00Z

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

Saucy libretto in Powder Her Face

2008-06-11T23:00:00Z

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

An innovative performance

2008-04-28T23:00:00Z

The world premiere of Thomas Ad�s�s In Seven Days: Piano Concerto with Moving Image was a triumph, says Fiona Maddocks.

Ether 08 merges art with technology

2008-04-07T12:36:29Z

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.

Eclectic line-up for Ether Festival

2008-03-03T11:17:20Z

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

Double dose of brilliance

2007-08-29T23:00:00Z

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

Opera survives in concert

2007-08-20T23:00:00Z

An exquisite balance of weight and detail, Bart�k's Duke Bluebeard's Castle proves opera can survive in concert.

Quartet display intensity

2007-07-11T23:00:00Z

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

Piano master in right key

2007-05-30T15:48:27Z

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

The Southbank light show

2007-05-23T10:08:10Z

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

He plays the piano too

2007-04-17T23:00:00Z

Thomas Ad�s showed he is equally compelling as composer and pianist in the penultimate concert of his festival, Traced Overhead.

New light on old songs

2007-04-03T23:00:00Z

If the mark of a creative genius is to confront the familiar and show it in a new light, then Thomas Ad�s is such a genius.

Mesmerising Ad�s is moving on

2007-03-25T23:00:00Z

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

Ad�s proves he's the real thing

2007-03-13T00:00:00Z

Thomas Ad�s'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.

The Tempest returns

2007-03-09T13:49:55Z

Thomas Ad�s 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.

Rattle traces some great inspiration

2007-03-08T00:00:00Z

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