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• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture History Literature London Opera Theatre

  Lessons in Love and Violence at the Royal Opera House review ****

  Lessons in Love and Violence Royal Opera House, 26th May 2018 Here is an extract from an illuminated manuscript showing Eddy II getting a crown. Or more precisely a second crown. Not sure what that is all about but given he was by reputation a high maintenance sort of fella…

  June 6, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Greenwich Theatre review ****

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream Greenwich Theatre, 24th May 2018 This was the third and final leg of Lazarus Theatre’s hitherto excellent season at the Greenwich Theatre. The previous productions, Edward II (Edward II at Greenwich Theatre review ****) and The Lord of Flies (Lord of the Flies at Greenwich Theatre…

  June 3, 2018
• art Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Romanticism

  Beethoven symphony cycle from Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Ades at the Barbican review *****

  Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Ades (conductor), Nicholas Hodges (piano), Joshua Bloom (bass) Barbican Hall, 22nd and 24th May 2018 Beethoven – Symphony No 4 in B flat major Op 60 Gerard Barry – Piano Concerto Beethoven – Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 Gerard Barry – The Conquest of…

  June 3, 2018
• Culture History Literature London Theatre

  Describe the Night at the Hampstead Theatre review ****

  Describe The Night Hampstead Theatre, 23rd May 2018 In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Describe the Night hasn’t gone down too well with the London critics. The SO and I think they might have missed a…

  May 31, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  Mayfly at the Orange Tree Theatre review *****

  Mayfly Orange Tree Theatre, 21st May 2018 A play set in a rural location about a family processing grief. Not a million miles away from the not entirely successful Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre I hear you clamour. (Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre review ***). Well yes after a fashion.…

  May 28, 2018
• Church Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Barbican Hall review ***

  London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas, Camilla Tilling (soprano), Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone) Barbican Hall, 20th May 2018 Beethoven – Missa Solemnis Hard to believe that the scruffy scrawl above is from the hand of the greatest ever composer in one of…

  May 28, 2018
• Culture History Literature London Theatre

  Life and Fate at the Theatre Royal Haymarket review ***

  Life and Fate Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 20th May 2018 The Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg was founded in 1944 and is one of just three European theatre companies to have been awarded the title Theatre of Europe from the EU. (No I didn’t…

  May 28, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Spira Mirabilis at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Spira Mirabilis Queen Elizabeth Hall, 15th May 2018 Beethoven – Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 Spira Mirabilis is a group of talented young musicians from around the world who play in various European orchestras. They hole up in Formigine in Northern Italy near Bologna to learn from each…

  May 27, 2018
• Culture London Philosophy Theatre

  An Oak Tree the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  An Oak Tree Orange Tree Theatre, 13th May 2018 Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree has been on my theatrical wish list for a little while now. First performed in 2005 at the Edinburgh Fringe it was, I understand, inspired by Michael Craig-Martin’s, (he of the day-glo technology), seminal work of…

  May 26, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  The Gronholm Method at the Menier Chocolate Factory review ****

  The Gronholm Method Menier Chocolate Factory, 12th May 2018 Curious place the Menier Chocolate Factory. Properly fringe in looks and feel. But programming which is more Bournemouth than Borough. Still it knows its audience and seems to pack ’em in, even with prices that seem a little more confident than…

  May 23, 2018