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A new comedy based on the heavyweight 1990s Britpop battle between Blur and Oasis has been announced - and it will head to Manchester on a major UK tour before the West End.
Known then as Center Opera, an offshoot of Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the company toured places like New York and San ...
Impresario Cameron Mackintosh talks about creating Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends and reinventing several of his classic ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera features Donald J. Trump, whose 1989 full-page newspaper ad sought to demonize the young men ...
Mozart’s greatest opera often requires miracles to pull off well. Created on relatively short notice, this production is a good-under-the circumstances show.
Critic at large Ed Siegel finds that the conductor and the orchestra, with more than a little help from friends like Yuja ...
Opera North have recently pioneered a way of presenting some big works which they call “dramatic concert stagings”, ...
The next season will feature three of the world’s most popular works, “Pagliacci,” “The Barber of Seville” and “Carmen” ...
A north Belfast opera singer has spoken of her personal meeting with Pope Francis, describing how he blessed her voice and ...
We take a look at ten great forgotten gems from the 1980s; how many have you seen…? The 1980s was an eclectic melting pot of ...
Alex Ovechkin tied Wayne Gretzky as the NHL's career goal leader on Friday night – a mark that once seemed insurmountable and earned Gretzky the nickname The Great One. The Great Eight ...
The great theater composer Stephen Sondheim loved puzzles, and when he died in 2021, he left one for his good friend, British ...