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Read more » | Desktop version »Orchestral manoeuvres in a car park: does ENO's drive-in opera hit the high notes?
With the action updated to a London car park and the audience in cars, ENO’s La Bohème is Europe’s first live drive-in opera. Our writer hops on his bike to watch the action from a socially distanced concrete square
Read more » | Desktop version »AG Cook: Apple review – magical shifts in tone
Abrasive techno and acoustic guitars collide on AG Cook’s second album in a month
Read more » | Desktop version »Alicia Keys: Alicia review – classic and contemporary
Some fine collaborations enliven the soul singer’s most personal set so far
Read more » | Desktop version »Patti Smith: 'I feel the unrest of the world in the pit of my stomach'
The singer on solitude, lifelong friend Sam Shepard, and her latest memoir
Read more » | Desktop version »A Swayze and the Ghosts: Paid Salvation review – a faultless debut
Angry, tuneful and woke – this Tasmanian punk band dazzle on all counts
Read more » | Desktop version »Safe arias: how opera blazed the trail for the return of live entertainment
While theatres and rock venues largely remain closed, sopranos and tenors are making a return to the stage
Read more » | Desktop version »Express yourself: why Madonna wants to tell her own life story
The material girl is to write and direct her own biopic, but fans will want to see the struggles as well as the triumphs
Read more » | Desktop version »Tim Garland: Refocus review – a classic 60s fusion revisited
The saxophonist takes Stan Getz’s unique collaboration with Eddie Sauter in a bold new direction
Read more » | Desktop version »Sleaford Mods review – a bracing stream of class consciousness
The Nottingham punk duo let rip with a battery of barbed lyrics, bizarre noises and back-to-basics beats
Read more » | Desktop version »The week in classical: A Feast in the Time of Plague; Fidelio; Alban Gerhardt and Markus Becker – review
Grange Park Opera serves up a delicious cast for the world premiere of Alex Woolf and David Pountney’s timely new opera
Read more » | Desktop version »‘How happy he was’: candid David Bowie photographs by his childhood friend
Brighton exhibition collates snaps Geoff MacCormack took touring with the star in the 70s
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