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Lucian Ban/Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Concert - review
The New York-resident Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and American violinist and viola-player Mat Maneri are touring (with three UK dates from 21 May) to launch this live duo set.
Ray Russell: Now, More Than Ever - review
(Abstract Logix) UK guitarist Ray Russell, a composer and studio specialist for much of the past three decades, broke cover for some dynamic live shows last autumn. He's aided on a jazz-rock fusion programme here by gifted guests including Gary Husband
Rolando Villazon - review
As well as writing about Verdi, and presenting a documentary to celebrate his bicentenary, Rolando Villazón is on a 15-date European tour in which he sings arias by the composer, accompanied in London by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the Russian condu
The Pirates of Penzance - review
It is a glorious thing that The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company – purveyors of all things Gilbert and Sullivan – have returned to the stage after 10 years in the wings.
These Shining Lives - review
Many years ago Keith Dewhurst wrote a Guardian column arguing that theatre had to move away from city centres to areas where people actually lived.
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories - review
On YouTube, you can find cameraphone footage of an advert for Daft Punk's fourth studio album that was beamed out from the main stage at last month's Coachella festival.
Look/13: the Liverpool international photography festival - in pictures
Pictures from Liverpool's second biennial international photography festival, which will be held from 17 May to 15 June at various venues in the city
Glyndebourne 2013: Kate Lindsey on Ariadne auf Naxos
"The Composer is a trouser role, and he's a young boy, really. The opera he has written, which the rich man commissions in the Prologue [the first part of Strauss's opera] is his first big opportunity, it's his first opera.Glyndebourne 2013: Sir Thomas Allen on Ariadne auf Naxos
The baritone talks to Tom Service on his role as the Music Master in Richard Strauss's opera.