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English National Opera 2011-12 SeasonTuesday, 17 May 2011
Contemporary music and 11 new productions are at the heart of a strong ENO 2011-12 season announced today. Highlights include a new opera from Damon Albarn (Doctor Dee) on the extraordinary life of Elizabethan alchemist and... Read more... |
Poly Styrene, 1957-2011Tuesday, 26 April 2011
The death of Poly Styrene (Marianne Elliot-Said) is more than another reminder that the ever-influential punk era is further and further away. It is also genuinely sad as she was always helpful, always approachable and – simply put – a nice... Read more... |
BBC Proms 2011: The BriefingSaturday, 16 April 2011
In 2010, the prospectus didn't excite but the concerts turned out better than ever. "Let's hope it's not the other way round this year," commented Proms Director and Radio 3 Controller Roger Wright on Thursday afternoon as we milled around with our... Read more... |
Dance landscape shrinks and shifts nationwide in Arts Council cutsWednesday, 30 March 2011The Arts Council’s rearrangement of the dance world by its handling of its 15 per cent subsidy cut shows no change in its persistence in choosing to prefer bureaucratic structures to talent. The 15 per cent cut has been handed straight over to all... Read more... |
Come clean over cuts, arts chiefs challenge CameronFriday, 25 March 2011The leaders of Britain’s leading arts establishments, from the Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and Philharmonia Orchestra to choreographers Akram Khan and Siobhan Davies, have written to the Prime Minister asking him to come clean... Read more... |
The Budget and the Arts: Osborne tilts towards private supportersThursday, 24 March 2011
Yesterday’s Budget, as expected, tilted future presumptions for arts funding firmly towards a higher proportion of private philanthropy with a series of measures to encourage wealthy individuals through tax quid pro quos to donate to arts either in... Read more... |
Elizabeth Taylor: 1932-2011Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Yes, we’ve always claimed her as one of ours, even though her parents were both American and they moved her back to the States as war loomed. She appeared in her first film, There’s One Born Every Minute, with Universal Pictures, with whom she... Read more... |
Danish opera chief to take over at the Royal Opera HouseFriday, 18 March 2011
The Royal Opera has announced that Kasper Holten, artistic director of the Royal Danish Opera, has been appointed Director of Opera at Covent Garden, to succeed Elaine Padmore at the end of this season.A native of Copenhagen, 37-year-old Mr Holten... Read more... |
WOW – Women of the World, Southbank CentreMonday, 14 March 2011
Feminism is a dirty word. Ask anybody. Do they want to be tarred with the label? Do they, hell. The word still carries connotations of man-haters. Even today’s young women fighting against harassment in tube carriages, horrified by the easy... Read more... |
Love dies at Olivier Awards, but Smith, Sondheim, Lyttelton soarMonday, 14 March 2011
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Love Never Dies emerged empty-handed at the 35th Laurence Olivier Awards, despite seven nominations, but it was a good night for Legally Blonde, Stephen Sondheim, and, so it seemed, pretty well any production lucky... Read more... |
Damien Hirst's Tate retrospective - why now?Friday, 04 March 2011
Damien Hirst is finally getting his first UK retrospective in a public gallery next year, but the question seems to be, “Why now?” It seems both far too late and far too early, especially since Hirst has made no significant work in some years. That... Read more... |
The return of Edwyn Collins - the artistFriday, 25 February 2011
When musician Edwyn Collins, who had a massive hit both sides of the Atlantic with "A Girl Like You", and was also the front-man of Eighties band Orange Juice, suffered a double brain haemorrhage in 2005, he was initially unable to speak, read or... Read more... |
