Music
A discipline in danger
Universities should not respond to funding crises by axeing the arts
The nun’s tale
Dead Man Walking, English National Opera, Coliseum
Baroque in a bad way
Vikingur Olafsson: Opus 109 (DG)
Music for troubled souls
NIGUN (SWR Music)
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
Me and my gull
Seagull: True Story, Marylebone Theatre
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
Transcending misery
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 (BIS)
A hint of the mystical
Music has inspired two fine new productions
Mad for it
A review of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Holland Park
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Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
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Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
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