by Web Editor | Jul 6, 2016 | Drama
Defy the weather William Russell Open Air theatre in London tends to automatically mean Regent’s Park but it is not the only venue – for the last eight years Iris have been playing in the gardens of St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, they usually do...
by Web Editor | Jul 4, 2016 | Music
Horsing around Robert Thicknesse And so to the comedy. It’s not abnormal to have issues with Siegfried, the scherzo of the Ring cycle: Wagner did, too. Stitching together the fairy-tale of “The lad who went forth to learn what fear is” with the legend of Siegfried,...
by Web Editor | Jul 1, 2016 | Music
Circles of the mind Robert Thicknesse Das Rheingold I imagine everyone agrees that Rhinegold should start in the dark – that chthonic rumble and the arpeggios that emerge from it, the beginning of the world, kind of demand it. But you can’t really do that on a concert...