MOR. Twee. Unashamedly crowdpleasing. Are such descriptors indicative of a tedious night in the stalls? For your reviewer, ...

Michael Gira (born 19/2/54) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, author and artist. He founded Swans, a band in which ...

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Ready to Live a Lie is so sonically vaporous it almost isn’t there. While the album’s 11 tracks draw from continental ...

As this two-part documentary vividly illustrates, it has been a wild ride for Baroness Mone of Mayfair, the self-made ...

It’s intoxicating, not at all theartsdesk on Vinyl ’s usual thing but achieving soaring lift-off, nonetheless. Comes in photo ...

Thankfully, Julia Burbach’s version of The Flying Dutchman for Opera Holland Park doesn’t try to be one of those ...

As a regular theatregoer, you learn pretty quickly that there’s no story too bizarre to work as a musical. Cannibalistic ...

James Crabb is a musical magician, taking the ever-unfashionable accordion into new and unlikely places, through bespoke ...

"How long is Wagner’s Ring Cycle?" That’s not the opening to a joke, it’s a genuine question asked by a friend who I’d met up ...

So here in Paris, as at Salzburg in 2022, it’s no longer “Puccini’s Trittico” but “the Asmik Grigoryan Trittico”. Which would ...

A society ruled by hysteria. Lurid lies that carry more currency than reality. There’s no shortage of reasons that Arthur ...