National Theatre Live – Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: Filmed (directed by Matthew Amos) in London’s Lyttleton Theatre. (JPr)
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Chelsea Opera Group’s concert performance of Édouard Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ys at Cadogan Hall on 30 March
Chelsea Opera Group present Édouard Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ys, a concert performance in French at the Cadogan Hall, London on Sunday 30 March 6.30pm
Puzzling BBC presentations on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Agnes Kory considers the BBC’s programming on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 Full credit to the BBC for giving its all to commemorate the International Holocaust Memorial Day which on 27th January this year marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of the many BBC programmes, I attended two and watched one on BBC2. … Read more
Ballet Icons Gala returns on 9 March 2025 at the London Coliseum
BALLET ICONS GALA IN 2025 WILL BE A MESMERIZING CELEBRATION OF DANCE AND WILL HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF THE GLOBAL ENVIROMENTAL CRISIS
Globally recognized Ballet Icons Gala is set to enchant audiences once again at the London Coliseum on 9 March 2025. A global highlight on the ballet calendar, this much-anticipated event promises an unforgettable evening, celebrating the unparalleled beauty of classical and contemporary ballet.
The Last Musician of Auschwitz: A documentary fulfilling the need to bear witness and preserve memory
United Kingdom The Last Musician of Auschwitz: Toby Trackman (director), Deborah Lee (producer), Shown on BBC 2 (and available on BBC iPlayer for 11 months), 27.1.2025. (CSa)
Teodor Doré’s Rachmaninoff Variations album is out soon; live premiere New York (29 Jan) and London concert (8 March)
Crimean-Born Pianist And Composer To Debut ‘Rachmaninoff Variations’ In New York And London – Exploring Historical Parallels Through Innovative Reworkings Of The Great Master
Teodor Doré is proud to present his new project entitled Rachmaninoff Variations, forthcoming on the DAG Klassical label in spring of 2025. There will be a live premiere in New York City on January 29th at Carnegie’s Hall’s Weill Recital Rooms, and a later concert with The London City Philharmonic will take place on 8th March at Holy Trinity Church in Chelsea’s Sloane Square.
(P)review of the filmed version of Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth coming to a cinema near you soon
United Kingdom William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Filmed live (directed by Tim Van Someren) at London’s Donmar Warehouse in 2023 and released in cinemas across the UK, US, Australia and selected international territories from 5th February 2025. (JPr)
Len Mullenger looks back at 30 years of MusicWeb International (founded in 1995)
30 years of MusicWeb International by Len Mullenger
2025 is the year in which MusicWeb achieves a significant milestone; it is thirty years ago that I founded the site, way back in 1995.
I hope I will be forgiven for blowing my own – and MusicWeb’s – trumpet. Over these thirty years we have diligently presented reviews of extremely high quality, unmatched in quantity by any other site. We are the number one leading site, with 61,000 CD reviews to date and multitudes of articles, and we are immensely proud of all that. I am immensely grateful to all the contributors to MusicWeb, both past and current, whose efforts have enabled us to achieve all this. My particular thanks go to my management team of David Barker, Ralph Moore, John Quinn and Jonathan Woolf whose strong support I rely so much on.