Joan Sutherland in 1975: Opera gave her a glamour and status she had never imagined having Her Mad Scene had an escapist quality that I don’t remember anyone else equalling for me - the way she chased ...

That sound you may be hearing most evenings toward the lower end of St Martin's Lane is likely to be the roof being blown off ...

Lise de la Salle was not the soloist the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover originally planned to bring with them to open their ...

I have to confess I was deeply sceptical that Haruki Murakami’s 1985 magical realist novel would work on stage. The plot, ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...

Every day, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, the Gates of Hell open and ghosts are allowed to return to our world.

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Han Oh attracted a different crowd, younger, hipper and happy to clap solos while the music continued – I could feel the Hall itself wince. We were treated to a virtuoso performance from Han Oh, whose ...

Ibsen's powerful study of hypocrisy gleams and bristles in the close-up intimacy of the bijou Jermyn Street Theatre. Richard Eyre's version, first seen at the Almeida in 2013, presents the play, its ...