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Published: 1 December, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Claire Rutter is back again after seven years as Floria Tosca in English National Opera’s revival of Puccini’s tear-jerker. Wow! Can she...
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Published: 24 November, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR The festive season would not so festive without Handel’s Messiah popping up all over town. This year, there are so many Messiah performers...
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Published: 17 November, 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB Now Halloween’s over, the bonfires are out and the fireworks are just damp squibs, it’s just about time to don the Uggs (optional), woolly...
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Published: 17 November, 2011 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18 Glorious jazz veteran Dave Gelly, Spice of Life, Moor Street, W1, 020 8647 027 017, 12.30pm, £5 Piano recital: Malcolm Troup, St Martin-in-the-...
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Published: 17 November, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Easy-listening Tchaikovsky is turned into easy-opera in Deborah Warner’s luscious production of Eugene Onegin for the English National Opera at...
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Published: 10 November, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR CHORAL societies are demonstrating their vocal skills over the next few weeks, starting on Saturday with the Highgate Choral Society. The HCS...
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Published: 10 November, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR NEARLY 300 jazz concerts in more than 50 venues are taking place over the next 10 days as part of the annual London Jazz Festival jamboree. The...
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11 London Jazz Festival Jazz Voice: singing extravganza/ 40-piece band, Barbican, 7.30pm Alicia Hart, Spice of Life, 7.30pm Richard Rodney Bennett/ Claire Martin, The Forge,...
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Published: 3 November, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR PIANISTS are out in force over the coming week. Tomorrow (Friday) evening, astonishing young Russian pianist Katya Apekisheva is playing in Schubert...
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Published: 27 October, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR THE English National Opera needs to be re-branded as ENO the Bold. Despite the cuts, its autumn season has given us the London premiere of an...
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Published: 27 October, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR GREAT jazz from the 1920s and 1930s is to be played by multi-award winning band Paris Washboard at The Bloomsbury Theatre tomorrow (Friday). The band...
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Published: 27 October, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR THE world premiere of a new chamber opera based on Joseph Conrad’s seminal 1982 novella Heart of Darkness is being performed at the Linbury...
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 Al Nichols Quartet, Spice of Life, Moor Street, W1, 020 8647 027 017, 12.30pm, £5 Piano recital: Evi Giampoulou, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, 020 7766 1100,...
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Published: 13 October, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR ACTRESS-director Fiona Shaw’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro for English National Opera at the Coliseum is packed with all sorts of...
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Published: 13 October, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR The Miles Davis Project Band is back at St James’s Piccadilly tomorrow evening (Friday), with a reverential recreation of the music played by...
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Published: 6 October, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR JAZZ, blues and funk are back on the menu at the Floridita supper club on Wardour Street, Soho, complementing the club’s salsa, samba and tango fare –...
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Published: 6 October, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR LEADING Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina is singing at the Barbican tomorrow evening (Friday), opening a week of some memorable singing around town....
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Published: 6 October, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR FRIDAY OCTOBER 7 Greek guitarist: Tassos Spiliotopoulos Trio, The Forge Doors 7pm, £8/cons £6 Mezzo-sop recital: Olga Borodina, Barbican, 7.30pm, from £...
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Published: 29 September, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR THE Royal Opera House looks to have come up with neat ploy for beating the impact of “the cuts” on its grant funding. It’s milking...
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Published: 22 September, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR TWO stunning, highly contrasting, productions of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love and Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s The Passenger are...
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Published: 8 September, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR NEW opera seasons get under way at the English National Opera and Royal Opera House over the coming week. The new Royal Opera season opens on Monday...
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Published: 8 September, 2011 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR CHRISOPHER Maltman, widely regarded as one of the finest English baritones of his generation, opening the Wigmore Hall’s 2011-12 season with a...
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9 Kings Place Hall Two: Mozart with Puppets, 11am/ 12.15pm/ 1.30pm (also Sat & Sun) Hall One: Dancing through time with IMG Artists, 2.30pm/ 3.45pm/ 5pm Hall One: OAE...
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FRIDAY, September 9 TODDLA T + Serocee ft Shola Ama + The 2 Bears + The Japanese Popstars. Relentless Garage (Highbury & Islington tube), 9pm, £5 END of the Road Festival Tour ft Willy...
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Published: 8 September, 2011 by ROISIN GADELRAB IT’S Saturday night and while band members James and Dan have gone out dressed as vampires to a secret screening of The Lost Boys, Does It...
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