Royal College of Music
latest in today
![](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Screenshot%202024-10-30%20at%2017-39-09%20theartsdesk.com%20%28%40the_arts_desk%29%20%E2%80%A2%20Instagram%20photos%20and%20videos.png?itok=W02US5i5)
It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
![The Twilights in late 1966, while they were in London](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Twilights%20London%20late%201966_header_1000.jpg?itok=KoHqvPm1)
On 26 September 1966, The Twilights set-off from Australia to Britain. The journey, on the liner the Castel Felice, took six weeks. A day after...
![Musical space odyssey: The Sacconi Quartet and Festival Voices](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/_Z7M2665%20%281%29.jpg?itok=PspHvSOW)
What better way to start a season...
![](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/bloom%20cover.jpg?itok=5EIl5wY7)
The Lovell sisters Rebecca and Megan can be heard supporting Ringo Starr on his new album of country songs, while at the same time their seventh...
![Don't criticise what you can't understand: Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Bob%20MAIN_0.jpg?itok=JFSW6YoG)
Being unknowable has been almost as much of a preoccupation for the erstwhile Robert Zimmerman as writing songs. Previously on film he has played...
![Illusion - Themba Mvula as the Con Man/Interlocutor, with company in Opera North's production of 'Love Life'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Love%20Life%2014%20%281200x800%29.jpg?itok=0X1bTCI9)
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. But in Love Life, Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s...
![Pillar of the community: Tommaso Ragno as Cesare, right, with his family, and Giuseppe De Domenico as Pietro, second right](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/AA.0128199.jpg?itok=AinHrRp2)
Another new release opens with the sounds of people in bed playing over the credits, but these are not Babygirl’s sighs of a...
![Kele Okereke: 'both maturing and as serious and creatively hungry as he’s ever been'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Kele%20-%20The%20Singing%20Winds%20Pt.%203%20-%20Album%20Art.jpeg?itok=zCDWlCLr)
Of the big UK indie bands of the 00s wave, Bloc Party were always the most austerely art-rockish. Where Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons, Franz Ferdinand...
Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela took the Barbican by storm last night with a thrilling account of Mahler’s...
![Jenůfa (Corinne Winters) and her stepmother the Kostelnička (Karita Mattila) in the second act](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/webimage-6827C556-C3CE-4593-830A7F92FC1D4C1E.png?itok=tTQeX2Sr)
This was always going to be Jakub Hrůša’s night, his first at the...