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Cultural Capital
Review: Esther
22 May 2012

A glorious performance of Handel's forgotten oratorio.

Music and Performance
"I'm an old lion" Profile: Harrison Birtwistle
16 May 2012
Culture
Review: Einstein on the beach
10 May 2012

An astonishing production at the Barbican

Music and Performance
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest/A Soldier and a Maker
02 May 2012

A gloriously irreverent operatic adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic.

Cultural Capital
Tectonics Festival/Harpa
09 March 2012

Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavik.

Cultural Capital
Progress, at last
05 March 2012

The classical music community has taken welcome risks with The Death of Klinghoffer and the return of the Britten Sinfonia

Rage to the music of time
27 February 2012

Classical music is colliding with politics.

Cultural Capital
"There is no such thing as unpolitical art"
24 February 2012

Alice Goodman, librettist of "The Death of Klinghoffer", discusses the controversial opera

Cultural Capital
Andre Previn's pulling power
22 February 2012

In classical music, the "special relationship" is alive and well

Music and Performance
Whitney Houston: A voice that destroyed itself
17 February 2012

What was it about Houston's voice that reached beyond the emotional confines of her records?

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