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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Jacqueline Feldman: Precarious Lease review - living on the...
Taking on some of the contingent, nebulous quality of its subject, Jacqueline Feldman’s Precarious Lease examines the beginning and the...
Manchester Collective, RNCM review - something special in ne...
When a piece of music is heard for the first time ever, there’s always the delicious hope that, just by being there, an audience might witness...
The Marriage of Figaro, Welsh National Opera review - no con...
Drained as they are at present of crucial funds, WNO are managing to...
Elektra, Duke of York's Theatre review - Brie Larson...
We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to account for the...
Widmann, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - razor-sharp attack...
Perhaps all great music counterpoints and comments on the times, but Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra have been searingly...
Bring Them Down review - ramming it home in the west of Irel...
“You know what they say: where there’s livestock, there’s dead stock,” says Jack (a brilliant Barry Keoghan). Never a truer word. There’s an awful...
Album: Rats on Rafts - Deep Below
Deep Below’s first track is titled “Hibernation.” “A winter breeze blows through my mind,” intones a colourless, dispirited male voice....