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Elvis Costello on writing The Juliet Letters: ‘It initially caused panic’
‘It’s been translated into different languages, there’s a version for a cabaret band – and the songs have been covered many times. Björk’s version of Why? is better than mine!’
Interviews by Imogen Tilden
11, Sep, 2023 @2:31 PM
‘Festivals have to be slightly different and magical’: Orkney’s St Magnus festival
Rooted in Orkney culture, the midsummer arts festival celebrates the past and the present of these beautiful islands, and, if the music of Peter Maxwell Davies is no longer its backbone, his guiding spirit remains
Imogen Tilden
21, Jun, 2023 @7:45 AM
Turbocharge philanthropy, do a conga and ditch the ukuleles: 10 ways to save classical music
After cuts by Arts Council England and the BBC, Simon Rattle says UK opera houses and orchestras have never faced greater peril. How can they fight back? Top musicians outline their battle plans
Compiled by Imogen Tilden
16, May, 2023 @3:45 PM
Edinburgh international festival draws on MLK with themes of hope and community
Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater and Budapest Festival Orchestra among performers named in lineup
Severin Carrell and Imogen Tilden
24, Apr, 2023 @11:00 AM
Female conductors to open and close BBC Proms for first time
Dalia Stasevska and Marin Alsop among 10 women conducting in 2023 season as festival moves towards gender equality
Imogen Tilden
19, Apr, 2023 @11:01 PM
An anti-portrait of an opera-goer … Bill Henson’s best photograph
‘I photographed opera-goers in Paris over several months. The pictures were technically fine – but I wanted them to feel timeless. So I restaged them in Melbourne with models’
Interview by Imogen Tilden
22, Mar, 2023 @3:11 PM
BBC Singers to close in corporation’s ‘major review of classical music’
Reductions also made to the BBC’s three England-based orchestras as part of plan to ensure the long-term future of organisation’s remaining performing groups
Imogen Tilden
07, Mar, 2023 @2:56 PM
The Woolf pack: Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning The Hours into opera
The Pulitzer-prize-winning, Mrs Dalloway-influenced novel about three generations of women, has finally hit the stage. Its stars tell us how they pulled it off
Imogen Tilden
07, Dec, 2022 @4:00 PM
‘The antique tea set was worth more than our entire budget’: How Peter Greenaway and Janet Suzman made The Draughtsman’s Contract
‘The costumes, the wigs and the dialogue are deliberately very stylised – people use 50 words when 20 would have done. If anyone went off-script they got their fingers slapped’
Interviews by Imogen Tilden
14, Nov, 2022 @2:44 PM
Thrilled, relieved, perplexed: three Arts Council funding verdicts
In our second set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding decisions, we hear from Balbir Singh Dance Company, Britten Sinfonia and Little Bulb
Chris Wiegand, Imogen Tilden and Harriet Sherwood
14, Nov, 2022 @10:52 AM
Arts Council funding: organisations head into the unknown amid cuts
In the first of a series of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding decisions, we consider the view from the Watermill theatre, Welsh National Opera and Paines Plough
Arifa Akbar, Imogen Tilden and Chris Wiegand
10, Nov, 2022 @11:43 AM
Royal Opera House announces Jakub Hrůša as its new music director
The Czech-born conductor will take over from Antonio Pappano in 2025. He talks exclusively to the Guardian about what shape the opera house will take under his musical leadership
Imogen Tilden
18, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM
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