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La rondine, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - sumptuous orchestral playing in an underrated score
There are no battlement leaps or murderous vows, no pistols or daggers, not so much as a slight cough disturbs the serene ...
The Arts Desk13h
La rondine, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - sumptuous orchestral playing in Puccini's underrated score
There are no battlement leaps or murderous vows, no pistols or daggers, not so much as a slight cough disturbs the serene ...
The Arts Desk13h
La orndine, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - sumptuous orchestral playing in Puccini's underrated score
There are no battlement leaps or murderous vows, no pistols or daggers, not so much as a slight cough disturbs the serene ...
The Arts Desk15h
The Producers, Menier Chocolate Factory review - liberating taboo-busting fun for grown-ups
There is something deliciously perfect about the timing of The Producers’ arrival at the Menier Chocolate Factory. In these ...
The Arts Desk13h
L’étoile, RNCM, Manchester review - lavish and cheerful absurdity
Emmanuel Chabrier’s L’étoile is not exactly a French farce, but it comes from a post-Offenbach era (1877 saw its premiere) ...
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La Rondine, LSO, Pappano review - sumptuous orchestral playing in Puccini's underrated score
There are no battlement leaps or murderous vows, no pistols or daggers, not so much as a slight cough disturbs the serene ...
The Arts Desk23h
Folds’ nuanced originals are much better than the by-numbers seasonal covers
The Christmas album is an American phenomenon that doesn’t really exist in British music. Dating back to Frank Sinatra and ...
The Arts Desk11h
A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC, Barbican review - visually ravishing with an undercurrent of violence
Hermia is a headbutting punk with a tartan fetish, Oberon looks like Adam Ant and Lysander appears to have stumbled out of a Madness video. Yet Eleanor Rhode’s exuberant A Midsummer Night’s Dream – ...