Clear your schedule and forget about any thoughts of sitting down to watch the beautiful game. Argentina against England is much more than a football match. It’s a ferocious and deep-rooted rivalry that’s full of enmity and transcends the sport ... .
How do you measure a year? Love is one answer, according to Jonathan Larson’s Rent, but what about songs? This tribute, which ran off-Broadway last year, reveals the industriousness of the composer and lyricist, who died aged 35 in 1996... A revelation.
Garsington Opera, Stokenchurch. Gerald Barry’s take on Wilde’s comedy is even wittier and zanier in JackFurness’s hyperactive staging – complete with a grand piano on stilts, a herd of cows and a kangaroo that meets a grisly end ... ....
A thick, distant rumble, the metallic sheen of an accordion drone and a woman singing a traditional Gaelic lament for the dead. these open Keening, the first track on the most fascinating folk-adjacent set of the summer ...Released 24 July ... .