by Mark Pullinger | Mar 26, 2018 | Music
Over the last weekend, two further Music Section awards were made, In Rome on Friday, thanks to Warner Classics, pianist Beatrice Rana received her Emerging Talent award. In Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Mark Pullinger presented Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla with her award on... 
by Philip Fisher | Mar 21, 2018 | Books, Drama, Visual Arts
Published by Duckworth Overlook at £16.99, 382 pages There is no question that the most hyped first novel of 2018 is Mrs Hancock and the Mermaid by Imogen Hermes Gowar. While that historical novel is undoubtedly a fine work by a prodigious new talent, a strong case... 
by Alex Leith | Mar 16, 2018 | Music
Summer lovin’ | by Lucien Jenkins | An enthusiastic audience was happy to welcome back the Robert Carsen account of Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, first heard at the Coliseum over twenty years ago. Its signature look was and is making up the entire stage as... 
by Alex Leith | Mar 13, 2018 | Music, Uncategorized
Dead loss | By Tom Sutcliffe | The Royal Opera House has taken a long time catching up with Janáček, whose Dostoevsky-based From the House of Dead, his final work for the theatre unseen at his death, is only just getting its first Covent Garden airing in a revised and...