by Web Editor | Jan 31, 2017 | Music
Rooftops of Paris Lucien Jenkins Annabel Arden’s 2012 staging of Puccini’s La bohème is revived by Caroline Chaney, with new principals (four of them making their Welsh National Opera debuts) and with Manlio Benzi, also a company debutant, having been passed the...
by Web Editor | Jan 23, 2017 | Awards, Film
Rich Cline The UK’s leading critics spread the love among a range of films at the 37th Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Sunday night at The May Fair Hotel in London. Hosted by actor-filmmakers Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, the star-studded black-tie ceremony...
by Web Editor | Jan 23, 2017 | Music
Elf service Robert Thicknesse Programme Elgar’s cello concerto and the people will come; then, apparently, they’ll leave. After the interval, gaps appeared in the previously packed Cadogan for Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra; a pity, since not only was it played more...