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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

In one sense it was a New Year’s Day “nearly”, just stopping short of giving us the already great Irish lyric-dramatic soprano Jennifer Davis in...

Mk.gee has been an unexpected thread in a year of music that’s pulled me in many different directions, punctuating the need for unique, sonically...

Having carved a swathe of terror and destruction through the Axis forces in North Africa, the SAS return for a second series (again written by...

As always, great concerts have outnumbered great opera productions over a year, and all of our national orchestras can be proud of their record. I...

In an ideal world an end-of-year roundup would applaud only new ventures – fresh productions that you may curse for having missed but whose...

Billie Holiday sings again, Olivia Laing tends to her garden, and Biran Klaas takes a chance: our reviewers discuss their favourite...

Young eldritch junkie Nick Cave would have struggled to predict his maturity as a font of wry and sacred wisdom, or the fathomless loss he...

Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight...

I thought I might never be able to say it’s been a great year for...