In the framing device, a professor (Jonathan Guy Lewis) stands at a lectern and asks if anyone has had a supernatural ...

It’s a good year to be Handel-lover. No sooner have summer runs of Rodelinda (Garsington) and Saul (Glyndebourne) finished than we’re into autumn and Opera North’s Susanna, Giustino at the Royal Opera ...

Hollie Cook was in the final line-up of post-punk groundbreakers The Slits. When singer Ari Up died in 2010 and the group ended, there was a flurry of interest in Cook for a while. She supported The ...

As the new season opens, confidence is high at ENB, just as it should be given the roaring success of recent programmes ...

Trio da Kali are griots, and their traditional role in West Africa is to connect: to evoke the glories of the past and to ...

Armageddon is here again, as Kathryn Bigelow’s first film in eight years examines the minutes before a nuclear missile hits ...

Idris Elba has only just appeared as the British Prime Minister in the action comedy Heads of State (2025) – now he's ...

Echo Vocal Ensemble have their genesis in Genesis. Sarah Latto’s group were initially formed by a cohort of the Genesis ...

Turning Handel oratorio into opera can be a rewarding enterprise. Charles Edwards’ presentation of Joshua, over 15 years ago, ...

Pop Will Eat Itself deserve to be more celebrated. The Stourbridge outfit were one of the first 1980s bands to realise the ...

One miracle of musical performance is that a work you’ve loved for years can be revealed as never before in an outstanding ...

The reappearance of These Were The Earlies for its 21st-anniversary is a surprise. Although The Earlies' debut LP received a ...