Is the Royal Ballet a “Balanchine company”? The question was posed at a recent Insight evening to Patricia Neary, the ...

Over the last three years of the London Handel Festival, two experimental productions have proved to be highlights – not just of the festival itself – but of the musical year. In 2023, Adele Thomas’s ...

Over the last three years of the London Handel Festival, two experimental productions have proved to be highlights – not just ...

A pizzicato violin opens Song Over Støv. Gradually, other instruments arrive: bowed violin, a fluttering flute, pattering ...

The dramatic allure of families neck-deep in organised crime never seems to falter, and Stephen Butchard’s new series continues that great tradition in rambunctious style. Sean Bean (pictured below) ...

On the spoken word LP Loose Talk, Amelia Barratt reflects on her or other women’s experiences, real or imagined, over ...

The sticker on the front cover says “The heaviest proto-metal compilation ever released.” And considering the label behind ...

In Italy, they did it differently. Their pulp fiction tales of suburban transgression appeared between yellow covers on new ...

In Italy, they did it differently. Their pulp fiction tales of suburban transgression appeared between yellow covers on new ...

Will Smith’s new album, Based on a True Story, is a prime example of why some comebacks should remain hypothetical. After two ...

Resurrecting the origins of old rock stars is becoming quite the thing, After cinema’s Elton John, Freddie Mercury, Bob Dylan ...

Forget, for a moment, the legend and the lustre. If you knew nothing about Riccardo Muti’s half-century of history with Verdi ...