How do you make a two-part final featuring five piano concertos work as a couple of totally satisfying programmes? First, ...

We were of course lucky to get this new WNO Rigoletto at all. If it weren’t for the fact that, in the end, the company’s wonderful chorus and orchestra couldn’t wait to get back to doing what they do ...

Apart from being one of Britain’s greatest songsmiths of the past 50 years, Elvis Costello – from the early adoption of the Rock’n’roll King’s first name – has produced a form of naked self-expression ...

Just a glance at the six core funding principles with which the Arts Council of Wales (ACW) judges whether the arts organisations it exists in order to support are worthy of public subsidy shows that ...

Somewhat amusingly, the sign outside Birmingham’s O2 Academy on Saturday stated that the evening’s entertainment was to be ...

White Roses, My God isn’t a Low album. It couldn’t be. Mimi Parker, Alan Sparhawk’s wife and partner in Low, died in November 2022. And despite Low’s many musical twists and turns, Sparhawk’s public ...

As the name of a music genre, new jack swing was coined in an issue of the Village Voice dated 18 October 1987. Writer Barry ...

Robert Crumb puts America’s racist, misogynist Id on paper with self-implicating obsession. Terry Zwigoff’s 1995 documentary ...

The latest Greatest Hit to land at the Lyric is Timberlake Wertenbaker’s 1988 award-winning play about a performance of Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer by British convicts in a New South Wales penal ...

Are you a serial killer?” asks a woman sitting in a pick up truck with a man she just met at a bar. The neon sign from the ...

Mozart, made in Manchester”, the project to perform and record an edition of the piano concertos plus all the opera overtures ...

Life can be unfair, and Katy Perry can’t be alone in finding herself having to take the rough with the smooth. Still, anyone ...