Review: Jakub Józef Orliński’s debut recital brings La Scala to its feet
Graham Spicer sees Jakub Józef Orliński and Michał Biel make their debut at La Scala in a first-rate programme rewarded by a standing ovation.
Shakespeare
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Review: Shobana Jeyasingh Dance in We Caliban, an ‘inventive, sideways look’ at The Tempest
Graham Watts sees Shobana Jeyasingh’s We Caliban – I would rather see fresh ideas than this continuing trope of reinventing Shakespeare.
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Interview: Jakub Józef Orliński – freedom of movement
An interview with countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński – not about his singing for an opera magazine, but about his dancing for Dancing Times.
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Review: William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at La Scala with The Fairy Queen
A standing ovation at La Scala for William Christie and Les Arts Florissants’ hip-hop flavoured version of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.
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[Review] The Wild Duck – Vildanden – with the Norwegian National Ballet
Graham Watts sees Marit Moum Aune’s new work Vildanden (The Wild Duck) for the Norwegian National Ballet.
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Anastasia Bartoli answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… singers’ edition!
Soprano Anastasia Bartoli on Lady Macbeth and her nails, her famous mother and her favourite opera, her offstage passions and opinions.
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[Review] Italian countertenor Raffaele Pe’s exuberant Purcell recital
Highlights of Italian countertenor Raffaele Pe’s festival Orfeo Week were an all-Purcell programme and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.
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The stunning new Shakespeare North Playhouse opens in the UK
The Shakespeare North Playhouse is a stunning new theatre recreated in the north of England from 17th-century designs by Inigo Jones.
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Anna Rose O’Sullivan answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
The Royal Ballet principal dancer Anna Rose O’Sullivan on Darcey Bussell and Harry Potter, Kenneth Macmillan and Meryl Streep, dance and family.
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Claudio Monteverdi, opera’s first master, was born 450 years ago
Two events make 1567 a watershed year in the history of music’s relationship to words. In Rome, Palestrina (c. 1525- 1594), the greatest master of Italian Renaissance polyphony, published his most famous composition, the Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass); and in provincial Cremona, Claudio Monteverdi was born. One style of music reached its apogee…
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2,695 shows make this year’s Edinburgh Fringe the biggest ever. And the programme: 376 pages and weighs 605 grams!
A record number of shows will be staged at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, brushing off fears that the clash with the London Olympics would harm the Festival. A 6% increase on last year’s programme will see 2,695 shows take to theatres, pubs, nooks, crannies and gardens all over Scotland’s capital in August with 47 countries…
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