by Graham Watts | Feb 18, 2020 | Dance
The 20th Anniversary edition of the National Dance Awards (#NDA20) will be held at The Barbican on Wednesday (19th February) from 1-15pm. We are delighted to announce that this year’s awards will again be live-streamed and can be followed in real time on the National... 
by Graham Watts | Feb 18, 2020 | Dance, Uncategorized
The National Dance Awards is delighted to announce that the hosts for the 2020 National Dance Awards will be Miguel Altunaga and Mara Galeazzi. Miguel joined Rambert in 2007, having previously been a member of Danza Contemporanea de Cuba and toured with Carlos... 
by Tom Sutcliffe | Feb 16, 2020 | Music
ENO no-no It is easy to see why Verdi was attracted to Schiller’s tragedy about the class system, Kabale und Liebe. A genius from the lower orders, Verdi believed in freedom and was classless. English-speaking critics patronise the Schiller play because of the poison... 
by Lucien Jenkins | Feb 10, 2020 | Music
Welsh National Opera’s new (to the UK – it first saw the light of day last spring in Bonn) show is a visual triumph. The costumes (Marie-Jeanne Lecca) and set (Raimund Bauer) are arresting. The latter is a series of frames, so the characters seem to be stepping in and... 
by Alexandra Coghlan | Feb 7, 2020 | Music
Gerald Barry’s Alice opera is less an adaptation than an invasion. The Irish composer takes Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass and unleashes the full force of his madcap, surrealist imagination at them.... 