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Calixto Bieito takes on Wagner's Ring Cycle, a quarter century after first shocking audiences

Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed from a European regietheater enfant terrible to a patriarch

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How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future

How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do Mozart, or score the winning goal in the next World Cup final, perhaps?

The Conversation

The Marriage of Figaro review – WNO’s staging has punch and plenty to savour

The 2016 production – revived by Max Hoehn – emphasises the farcical rather than subversive aspects of Mozart’s opera. It took a while to settle down, with conductor Kerem Hasan setting a frenetic pace

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The Marriage of Figaro review – Mozart as hotel farce is sparky but scrappy

Joe Hill-Gibbins’ stylish 2020 staging finally gets a full run, with Nardus Williams in glorious voice as the Countess matched by a strong cast

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Welcome to the Madhouse: The wild history of NASCAR at Bowman Gray Stadium

NASCAR's Clash returns to Bowman Gray Stadium, a .25-mile track with a history of chaos and fights. Here's how it earned the nickname 'The Madhouse'

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‘It’s full of things that didn’t happen – but it feels right!’ Inside the making of Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown

Starring an Oscar-tipped Timothée Chalamet, James Mangold’s biopic retells Dylan’s electric early career, but it resonates with today’s toxic fame and politics. The creative team explain their process – and what Dylan makes of it

The Guardian - UK

Man, 88, passes grade 8 piano with distinction, 67 years after taking grade 7

Ray Eveleigh says playing helps keep his brain active and wife and daughter encouraged him to go for grade 8

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“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”: Nils Frahm hits out at genre snobbery

“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”

MusicRadar

Squid Game returns, Skeleton Crew and Longlegs: what’s new to streaming in Australia in December

Plus Denis Villeneuve’s epic Dune: Part Two, a snackable TV series set in the world of Inside Out and a massively underrated Australian drama

The Guardian - AU

“I failed because a term has been created around the type of music I make”: Nils Frahm on struggling within the classical music space and navigating the live world

“I failed because a term has been created around the type of music I make”

MusicRadar

7-Year-Old 'Mozart' of Coding Offered Job at Russian Cybersecurity Firm

A coding genius was offered the head of corporate training position at Pro32, a Russian cybersecurity firm, that he can accept when he turns the legal working age of 14.

Latin Times

Soldiers fighting on Ukraine’s front line react to Trump’s election win

Trump promises to end the war swiftly once elected

The Independent UK

Khatia Buniatishvili is a classical music superstar. Her new album honors Mozart — in her own way

Khatia Buniatishvili has been one of the most well-known classical musicians for more than a decade

The Independent UK

Jacob Collier: 'We're at the frontier of change - I’m terrified and thrilled by what’s about to happen.'

Friends with Chris Martin and Stormzy and dubbed the ‘Mozart of Gen Z’... what’s next for the artist who honed his considerable gifts in his bedroom?

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Esoteric universe of Loewe is a smash hit for Jonathan Anderson

Gleaming marquee wallpapered with violin sheet music is venue for spectacular Paris show

The Guardian - UK

BBC arts chief hits back at accusations from Dimbleby and Bragg

Suzy Klein defends BBC’s ‘incredibly strong and passionate’ commitment to culture programming

The Conversation

When a child prodigy composer matured into a noblewoman, her legacy got complicated

Delphine von Schauroth (1813–1887) was spectacularly famous in the early 19th century.

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Marriage of Figaro; Proms 53, 54, 55 & 56 – review

Notable cameos and young new leads light up David McVicar’s latest Mozart revival. At the Proms, a moving tribute to conductor Andrew Davis and streamlined perfection from the Berlin Phil

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TV tonight: festival season climaxes with Sting, the Manics and Sugababes live

All the action from the Radio 2 weekender in Preston. Plus - French drama Sambre: Anatomy of a Crime continues to grip and disturb. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Anthony Roth Costanzo Reinvents Mozart's 'The Marriage Of Figaro'

Renowned countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo reimagines Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' in a captivating and innovative production at New York's Little Is...

The Independent UK

Anthony Roth Costanzo sings 7 roles in madcap `Marriage of Figaro' at New York's Little Island

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo sings Figaro, Susanna, the Count, Countess, Cherubino, Antonio and Barbarina in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” at New York’s Little Island, stretching his voice 3 1/2 octaves

The Guardian - UK

The Marriage of Figaro review – revival sparkles with young cast

David McVicar’s detailed staging of Mozart’s comedy opens Covent Garden’s new season, with conductor Julia Jones bringing energy and drive and Ying Fang, making her house debut, as an exquisite Susanna

The Guardian - UK

Viennese waltz: top travel tips for a spin around Austria’s capital

From the ferris wheel featured in the Third Man to an evening with Mozart and the world’s largest collection of Klimts, here’s how to make the most of a break in Vienna

The Guardian - UK

Prom 41: Ensemble Resonanz/Minasi review – soloists shine in underpowered Mozart programme

Performance of the Sinfonia Concertante and Jupiter Symphony was clearly articulated but distant and uninvolving, with little sense of revelation

The Independent UK

Yuval Sharon to direct Met Opera's new stagings of Wagner's Ring Cycle and `Tristan und Isolde'

Yuval Sharon, an American known for innovative productions, will direct the Metropolitan Opera’s next stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and “Tristan und Isolde,” both starring soprano Lise Davidsen and conducted by music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin

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