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Albums of the Year 2024: Kenny Barron - Beyond This Place Sebastian Scotney Monday, 16 December 2024 Kenny Barron’s Beyond This Place is glorious. Whereas I’ve found some of the more talked-about albums of 2024 either been uneven or unfocused – as if attracting debate is more important than just setting out to make a great album – everything just works so well here.
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The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane review - Sigourney Weaver's impassive Prospero inhabits an atmospheric, desolate world Heather Neill Friday, 20 December 2024 Shakespeare must have relished the opportunities brought by the indoor Blackfriars Theatre in 1611: sound magnified in a way impossible outdoors, magical stage effects in the semi-darkness, possibly even fireworks - and all at a ...
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The Producers, Menier Chocolate Factory review - liberating taboo-busting fun for grown-ups Helen Hawkins Wednesday, 11 December 2024 . There is something deliciously perfect about the timing of The Producers’ arrival at the Menier Chocolate Factory.In these twitchy times, Mel Brooks’s scurrilous Hitler musical lands like a stinkbomb in a parfumerie.
The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane review - Sigourney …
5 days ago · Shakespeare must have relished the opportunities brought by the indoor Blackfriars Theatre in 1611: sound magnified in a way impossible outdoors, magical stage effects in the semi-darkness, possibly even fireworks - and all at a time when the masque was the most fashionable theatre form. The Tempest, written especially for the venue, includes a masque and has masque-like properties throughout.
Messiah, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings review - once …
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The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera review - three-headed monster feels baggier than ever David Nice Friday, 08 November 2024 . Having all but sunk one seemingly unassailable o péra comique, Bizet’s Carmen, director Damiano Michieletto goes some way to helping out another with so many problems.Not far enough, alas, but the chosen edition, with its reams of recitative (mostly not by Offenbach ...
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Kavakos, Philharmonia, Blomstedt, RFH review - a supreme valediction forbidding mourning David Nice Friday, 22 November 2024 . From a privileged position in the Festival Hall stalls, I could see 97-year old Herbert Blomstedt’s near-immobile back as he sat on a piano stool with the score in front of him, but also his supremely expressive right …
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Messiah, Wild Arts, Chichester Cathedral review - a dynamic battle between revelatory light and Stygian gloom Rachel Halliburton Wednesday, 18 December 2024 The Wild Arts Ensemble was founded by Orlando Jopling in 2022 to create a dynamic, pared-back style of performance in which, as he put it, the “costumes, set and props… can be packed up into a couple of suitcases that we can take with ...
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Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, National Gallery review - passions translated into paint Sarah Kent Saturday, 14 September 2024 . Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers includes many of his best known pictures and, amazingly, it is the first exhibition the National Gallery has devoted to this much loved artist. Focusing mainly on paintings and drawings made in the two years he lived in Provence (1888-1890), it ...