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Back to the drawing room

Back to the drawing room

Will "club-style" classical-music nights really win over new audiences?
This Isn't For You
King's Place, London N1

In opera

Ode to electric joy

  • By David Smyth
  • 06 November

Africa Express was the jewel in the crown of a restlessly creative season
The Electric Proms
Various venues, London and Liverpool

Edinburgh, open city

  • 24 July

Every August, the Scottish capital plays host to the world's biggest season of arts events. Here, NS critics preview their highlights of this year's festival

Unenlightened behaviour

  • By Ian Irvine
  • 03 July

Clunking anti-Americanism mars a bold updating of Bernstein's work
Candide
Coliseum, London WC2

How lust conquers all

  • By Ian Irvine
  • 22 May

Glyndebourne's first night lived up to the buzz with a passion-filled masterpiece
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Glyndebourne Festival

What's happened to black theatre?

  • By Natasha Periyan
  • 10 May

An affair of the masses

  • By Edward Skidelsky
  • 14 February

Chinese opera is not all shrieks and bangs, as Edward Skidelsky discovers on a visit to Shanghai

Feature

A different kind of organ

Radio 2, beset by scandal, is still the home of gloriously odd programming

More in opera

A lady of letters

  • By Rick Jones
  • 10 January 2008

Between the lines

  • By Marc Geelhoed
  • 03 January 2008

Making a song and dance about it

  • By Rosie Millard
  • 16 August 2007

Monkeying around

  • By Dan Hancox
  • 12 July 2007

Passion play

  • By Rick Jones
  • 12 July 2007

Cry freedom

  • By Guy Dammann
  • 14 June 2007

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