Listings
UK Festivals 2011 Round-UpSaturday, 21 May 2011
It's time to dust down your tent and ice-box and plan some summer breaks with theartsdesk's definitive clickable festival guide - listings and links for all the UK festivals this summer, from rock by the lochs to DJs in London parks, and catching... Read more... |
English National Opera 2011-12 SeasonTuesday, 17 May 2011
Contemporary music and 11 new productions are at the heart of a strong ENO 2011-12 season announced today. Highlights include a new opera from Damon Albarn (Doctor Dee) on the extraordinary life of Elizabethan alchemist and... Read more... |
BBC Proms 2011 In FullFriday, 22 April 2011
The 2011 BBC Proms open on Friday 15 July and close on Saturday 10 September. Strands linking the 90 concerts include Choral Sundays, film and TV music proms, French music, unusual concertos, Liszt and Frank Bridge focuses, and the first Comedy Prom... Read more... |
Royal Opera & Royal Ballet, 2011-12 SeasonThursday, 14 April 2011
The Royal Opera House's 2011-12 season takes place under the shadow of a 15 per cent cut in public funding and the looming London Olympics. There are 12 ballet bills and 18 opera nights, including one new opera and two new short ballets.Tony Hall,... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2011-12 SeasonThursday, 24 March 2011
Family-favourite storyballets dominate Birmingham Royal Ballet's 2011-12 season, as the company looks forward to a stringent year. Beauty and Beast, Hobson's Choice and Far From the Madding Crowd, three of director David Bintley's full-lengthers,... Read more... |
Edinburgh International Festival 2011Thursday, 24 March 2011
The 2011 Edinburgh International Festival, running 12 August-4 September, has been announced, on a theme of the Far East and the Far West. Offerings include the National Ballet of China, Korean and Vietnamese contemporary dance, traditional... Read more... |
Chichester Festival 2011Thursday, 17 February 2011
Chichester Festival has unveiled its 2011 season running from May to November, and priority booking opened yesterday. Terence Rattigan's centenary is celebrated in style, including two famous and fine plays, The Deep Blue Sea and The Browning... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2010-11 SeasonThursday, 10 February 2011
Family favourites and fewer dates on the spring split tours mark straitened circumstances for Britain's busiest touring company, Birmingham Royal Ballet, keeping a smiling, child-friendly face on. Coppelia, La Fille mal gardée and the London... Read more... |
Regional Opera, 2011-12 SeasonMonday, 31 January 2011
Opera outside London flourishes in the hands of Opera North, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera. In 2011 the popular hits such as Carmen, The Merry Widow and La Traviata intermingle with rarer landmarks such as From the House of the Dead,... Read more... |
Royal Opera & Royal Ballet, 2011 SeasonMonday, 31 January 2011
2011 at Covent Garden launches with two much-anticipated world premieres in February: Christopher Wheeldon's first full-length storyballet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Mark-Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole, written by Richard Thomas (of Jerry... Read more... |
Southbank Centre, 2011 SeasonMonday, 17 January 2011
Mahler, Mahler and anyone who even remotely knew Mahler. There is, of course, more to the South Bank's 2011 season listings than this but the great symphonic agoniser (and his many chums) forms the bedrock of the classical programming as we all go... Read more... |
Barbican Centre, 2011 SeasonSaturday, 15 January 2011
In 2011 the Barbican offers eminent theatre directors Robert LePage and Peter Brook along with the diversions of London International Mime Festival. Music includes composer focuses on Unsuk Chin, Brian Ferneyhough and Peter Eötvös, and high-profile... Read more... |
