Britten’s Albert Herring is one of the great 20th century comic operas; only Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Barry’s The ...
Miners' Strike is that of men standing arm in arm against police and of mass protests devolving into mayhem – with protesters ...
The best Ealing comedies are surely the three darkest: specifically Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers and The Man in ...
A fizzy mystery cocktail with a twist and a splash, The Woman in Cabin 10, based on Ruth Ware’s bestseller, sails along like ...
Forty years ago, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment was born, and I heard Handel’s Solomon in concert for the first ...
It’s seven years since the Belgian brothers Dewaele unleashed their fine, largely instrumental and foot-stomping Essential ...
A month after Soft Cell’s "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" single peaked at number three in the UK charts, Marc Almond issued a ...
The Globe’s authenticity is its USP, so don’t expect the air-conditioning, the plush seats and the expectant hush of the ...
Never mind the permutations (anything up to eight hands on the two pianos); feel the unwavering quality of the eight pianists ...
It’s funny: people say a lot online that what you’re allowed to like and dislike in music is bounded by age, gender and so ...
The backscreens pop alive. A wall of photographer’s flashguns. On cyberpunk crutches, Lady Gaga stumbles jerkily towards us.
In the framing device, a professor (Jonathan Guy Lewis) stands at a lectern and asks if anyone has had a supernatural ...