Essays on the Performing Arts

<First published in “Slipped Disc” on January 30, 2025> I. Evening All Afternoon - Donmar Warehouse The actress Anastasia Hille has been playing lead roles in eminent London theatres for over thirty years. She’s even p

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London orchestras, and one pianist

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London orchestras, and one pianist

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Violinists, and other players

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Violinists, and other players

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Music in concert, in recital, in opera

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Music in concert, in recital, in opera

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“Arcadia” and other creations

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“Arcadia” and other creations

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Bryn Terfel’s Boris at Covent Garden; Angela Hewitt’s baroque recital at the Wigmore Hall; Imogen Cooper’s Mozart with Manfred Honeck’s Brahms German Requiem; Vladimir Jurowski’s Mahler Tenth.

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Bryn Terfel’s Boris at Covent Garden; Angela Hewitt’s baroque recital at the Wigmore Hall; Imogen Cooper’s Mozart with Manfred Honeck’s Brahms German Requiem; Vladimir Jurowski’s Mahler Tenth.

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Akram Khan’s “Giselle”; Yorke Dance Project, Robert Cohan, and Christopher Bruce; “The Death of Gesualdo”; Vladimir Jurowski and the Russian Diaspora; Wigmore Hall recitals

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Akram Khan’s “Giselle”; Yorke Dance Project, Robert Cohan, and Christopher Bruce; “The Death of Gesualdo”; Vladimir Jurowski and the Russian Diaspora; Wigmore Hall recitals

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“I Puritani” and “The Makropoulos Case”

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“I Puritani” and “The Makropoulos Case”

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Wigmore Hall recitals; “The Rivals” at the Orange Tree; “La Traviata” at Covent Garden

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Wigmore Hall recitals; “The Rivals” at the Orange Tree; “La Traviata” at Covent Garden

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Gay marriage (play); Music’s Odyssey (book); Wigmore Hall (concerts).

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Gay marriage (play); Music’s Odyssey (book); Wigmore Hall (concerts).

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Playfulness and expressivity and release

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Playfulness and expressivity and release

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Revisionism or not?

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Revisionism or not?

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Metatheatre and the passage of time

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Metatheatre and the passage of time

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Aspects of Englishness

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Aspects of Englishness

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Partenope and Ballet Shoes in London

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Partenope and Ballet Shoes in London

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Strange meetings of dance and music in New York

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Strange meetings of dance and music in New York

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Dead Choreographers’ Society

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Dead Choreographers’ Society

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Dramas of life and death

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Dramas of life and death

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Opera; theatre; recital

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Opera; theatre; recital

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The Old and the New

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The Old and the New

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