Leila Greening
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Industry, BBC One review - bold, addictive saga about corpor...
All three seasons of Industry are now on iPlayer, and after watching the most recent one and then backtracking for another...
theartsdesk at Wexford Festival Opera - let's make thre...
Name three operas framing dramas within, and you’d probably come up with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos...
Dr Strangelove, Noël Coward Theatre review - an evening of d...
Even by Stanley Kubrick’s standards, Dr Strangelove went through an extraordinary evolutionary process. After starting it off as a...
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, La Nuova Musica, Bates, Wigmore Hal...
Last time I saw the lovelorn Cyclops from Handel’s richly turbulent cantata, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, he was in a warehouse at Trinity...
Album: Peter Perrett - The Cleansing
That Peter Perrett is still alive after the decades of bad habits that he inflicted on himself must be something of a surprise to those who’ve...
Jonathan Coe: The Proof of My Innocence review - a whodunnit...
Anyone who has been on a British train in the last ten years will have been irritated to distraction by the inane and ubiquitous “See it, say it,...
The Room Next Door review - Almodóvar out of his comfort zon...
Towards the end of the last century, the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar made a run of screwball comedies, starting with Women on the Verge...
Book Extract: Where Songs Come From - The Lyrics and Origin...
For a few months a couple of years ago, when you googled the name Jim Bob, although you’d get a lot of information about me, Jim Bob, the lead...
Blu-ray: The Outcasts
This other major work by the writer of the English folk horror landmark The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Robert Wynne-...
Hallé, Wong, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - Bruckner’...
Kahchun Wong’s third Bridgewater Hall concert with the Hallé in his inaugural season as principal conductor consisted of just one work: Bruckner’s...