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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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  The Telegraph

  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

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  The 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

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  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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  Evening Standard

  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.”

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  House music: classical critics' watching and listening picks

  House music: classical critics' watching and listening picks. This week in our series in which critics tell us what they’ve been listening to at home, Rian Evans luxuriates in heady Szymanowski and Schoenberg, smells the brine in Aldeburgh and is impressed by an end-of-year double bill

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  Live from Covent Garden review, Royal Opera House: moving, yes, but not a showy gown in sight

  There’s been no shortage of live music broadcast across the internet during the lockdown, much of it played at a high level. But it’s fair to say it’s been somewhat short on high spirits and visual appeal. Listening to these austere concerts from white-walled studios or book-lined sitting-rooms has somehow magnified the unhappiness of our situation, reinforcing the sense of enveloping weirdness rather than offering some relief from it. One might have hoped the Royal Opera and Ballet would break

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  Dame Sarah Connolly withdraws from upcoming opera after breast cancer diagnosis

  She has pulled out of performances of Orpheus And Eurydice and The Childhood Of Christ.

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  Evening Standard

  The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018 - Performance: Classical music

  Has set alight music-making in London since returning from Berlin last year. Choir conductor, workshop Leader and founder of London’s Kingdom Choir, Gibson has been crowned “‘Britain’s godmother of gospel” after leading the Kingdom choir’s gospel performance of Stand by Me at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding ceremony.

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