Elisabeth Leonskaja, Wigmore Hall review - a universe of sound …
WEB8 hours ago · Wonders never ceased in Elisabeth Leonskaja’s return to the Wigmore Hall. Not only did she play Schubert’s last three sonatas with all repeats and the full range of a unique power undiminished in a 78-year old alongside a never too overstated pathos, radiance and delicacy; just before receiving the Wigmore Hall Medal (presentation by John Gilhooly pictured below), she also gave us more ...
Megalopolis review - magic from cinema's dawn | The Arts Desk
WEB11 hours ago · A nocturnal car chase between Cesar, Julia and Clodio also feels intensely real, the people and streets lush with life. Flatly taped sound-stage scenes elsewhere blow the illusion. Coppola’s concluding faith in humanity’s world-saving creative potential is quite moving, even if that promethean spark primarily resides in Cesar, and himself ...
Here in America, Orange Tree Theatre review - Elia Kazan and …
WEB5 days ago · Pre-Trump 2.0, David Edgar’s new play tells us (at least twice, Edgar not shy of driving home a point) that we can learn from past trauma in order to guide current behaviour. So, 300 million+ Americans are to draw on Stanislavski's Method in the polling booths come November? The memories Edgar conjures are from the 1950s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee went after Hollywood ...
Coriolanus, Olivier/National Theatre - ambitious staging but the …
WEB3 days ago · Lyndsey Turner's fast-paced production doesn't let the audience engage with its hero. Theatre review by Helen Hawkins The National’s new production of Coriolanus has to be one of the most handsome to appear on the Olivier stage. But it has arrived minus a key item: a hero whose end is tragic.
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WEB2 days ago · Mark Kidel Monday, 23 September 2024. Apart from being one of Britain’s greatest songsmiths of the past 50 years, Elvis Costello – from the early adoption of the rock’n’roll King’s first name – has produced a form of naked self-expression, blurred by intricately-tailored pretence. Though this is “art”, never artifice.
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WEBThe Lightest Element, Hampstead Theatre review - engrossing, but fragmentary. British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993) and Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) to more recent examples such as Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes (2017) and Marek Horn’s Octopolis (2023), the ...
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WEBSep 23, 2024 · Guy Oddy Saturday, 21 September 2024. Life can be unfair, and Katy Perry can’t be alone in finding herself having to take the rough with the smooth. Still, anyone would have thought that with the excessive pearl clutching that accompanied the July release of 143’s lead single “Women’s World” that she’d put out a Nazi marching song ...
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WEBProm 71, Seong-Jin Cho review - refined Romantic journeys. Boyd Tonkin Friday, 13 September 2024. Out of emergencies may come revelations. Sir András Schiff has broken his leg, and we wish him a super-speedy recovery. At the Proms, his promised Art of Fugue will have to wait. Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, a past winner of the Chopin Prize ...
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WEBLa traviata, Royal Opera review - a charismatic soprano in a serviceable revival. Alexandra Coghlan Tuesday, 10 September 2024. Later this autumn Richard Eyre’s La Traviata celebrates its 30th birthday. Not bad going for the director’s first ever foray into opera – a genre he admitted holding an “unreasonable prejudice against”.
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WEBProm 68, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Garsington Opera review - eerie beauty sometimes faintly glittering. Some operas shine in the vasts of the Albert Hall, others seem to creep back into their beautiful shells. Glyndebourne’s Carmen blazed, though Bizet never intended his opera for a big theatre, while Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream ...