For Richard Hawley, a “little banger” is a top-notch single, one condensing everything about the performance and performer ...

Island-in-the-1950s Così were sopranos Lucy Crowe and Ailish Tynan, and conductor Dinis Sousa. All three excelled, but so did ...

It’s a story being repeated the world over – apex predators such as lynx, wolves and bears hunted to extinction, followed by ...

Edward Simon shows again on this new album of re-imagined songs from Venezuela what a very fine pianist he is. His touch and ...

Mandy, Indiana are a Mancunian four-piece with a French singer who's based in Berlin. They make a lot of noise.

A right wing populist, a master manipulator of the media, he appears to be immune to the long accepted norms of professional behaviour. Foul-mouthed and a bully, but backed by an oligarch, he rides ...

In 2016, when Richard Jones's production of Musorgsky's original 1869 Boris Godunov first amazed us, Putin had invaded Crimea ...

Another interesting thing about the endless flux of the streaming era is that, for all that it’s supposed to homogenise and ...

There are many things that drew me to re-imagining Noel Coward's The Rat Trap, an early play from the author of such enduring ...

It’s more than a decade since Opera North had a new production of The Marriage of Figaro, and 30 years since the one before that had its premiere, so it’s certainly time for a fresh look at it. And ...

There are many things that drew me to re-imagining Noel Coward's The Rat Trap, an early play from the author of such enduring classics as Private Lives and Hay Fever.First, since the age of 16 I have ...

"How can we sleep for grief?", asks the brilliant and agitated Thomasina Coverly (the dazzling Isis Hainsworth) during the first act of Arcadia, a question that will come to haunt this magisterial ...