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| Born | June 13, 1963 |
| Hometown | County Durham, England |
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Toby Jones excited to immerse himself in Beckett during boat act in Fermanagh
- The actor is set to perform readings from Samuel Beckett in a graveyard, as well as on a boat on Lough Erne.
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Online Harms director warns of ‘deeply problematic’ niche social platforms
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee is told some smaller sites 'simply will not talk to governments about anything'.
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Ariodante, Royal Opera House online, review: splendid and buoyant
My regular readers may recall that I tend to get restless during performances of Italian opera seria. For all the musical riches they contain, their strings of da capo arias, characters that don’t interact intensely, and plots short on thriller pace leave me longing for Gluck or Mozart to come along with a less cumbersome way of making opera into drama. What one must remember is that the composers responsible wouldn’t have been surprised by my impatience: they never expected audiences to sit thr
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Mozart's Requiem, ENO/BBC Two, review: exquisite singing spoilt by dumbed down presentation
Along with a few other critics, I was snuck into the London Coliseum last week while English National Opera was rehearsing for this concert performance of Mozart’s Requiem. It was an eerie experience. Closed since March, the theatre’s interior looked magnificent (though vandals have recently made criminally hideous alterations to the beautiful Grade II* listed foyers designed by Frank Matcham) yet forlorn in its pristine emptiness. What interested me most, however, was the Covid-secure layout of
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
Classical highlights for the week ahead: 13-20 November
Classical highlights for the week ahead: 13-20 NovemberDespite lockdown, there’s still plenty of new music-making across the UK available to an online audience. Here’s our pick of next week’s live-streamed and pre-recorded concerts
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
Bostridge/Connolly/Drake/Carducci Quartet review – classy and compelling
Bostridge/Connolly/Drake/Carducci Quartet review – classy and compellingBarbican, London/online The underused combination of voice, piano and string quartet made for a rewarding evening in works by Vaughan Williams, Chausson and Fauré
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The Londoner: Royal Opera House ‘faces closure amid Covid crisis’
The Royal Opera House is facing shutdown, singer Dame Sarah Connolly says, as the Government was urged to act to save the British music industry. “They are ringing alarm bells. They are desperately trying to get sponsors to shore them up,” Connolly told The Londoner this week.She added: “Beyond the autumn they don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s an internationally renowned opera house but it’s potentially facing closure.”
