Five stars for the Cannes Dance Festival — from Vivaldi to zombies Date Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 8:24 AM Description The event opened with a world premiere by Thierry Malandain and an alluring piece by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar
Five stars for The Delinquents — a bank-robbery film that defies genres Image Date Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 7:01 AM Description Argentine mash-up of crime, thriller and comedy starts conventionally before heading sideways
Five stars for The Hills of California, a magnificent new play from Jez Butterworth — review Date Wednesday, February 07, 2024 - 5:01 PM Description Past and present, trauma and music combine in this simmering drama at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Five stars for The Idiot, Salzburg Festival — unmissable opera of love and manipulation Date Monday, August 05, 2024 - 10:23 AM Description Mieczysław Weinberg turns Dostoyevsky’s dense novel into a work of depth and nuance
Five stars for the Met’s Tannhäuser, despite climate-protest disruption Date Monday, December 04, 2023 - 7:45 AM Description Andreas Schager sang with passion, Christian Gerhaher with elegance in the revival of a 1977 Wagner production
Five stars for the Pet Shop Boys, Koko, London — hit after hit from a band on intoxicating form Date Monday, May 27, 2024 - 6:08 AM Description Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe made their back catalogue of classics seem urgent and modern
Five stars for the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, New York — review Image Date Tuesday, March 05, 2024 - 9:26 AM Description Conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, the visiting orchestra’s programmes of Bruckner, Mahler and Berg made for unforgettable listening
Five stars for the visceral and thrilling Young Fathers Date Monday, October 23, 2023 - 3:57 AM Description The Edinburgh-based trio seemed on the verge of spontaneous combustion at the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Five stars for Welsh National Opera’s hauntingly beautiful Death in Venice — review Image Date Monday, March 11, 2024 - 10:51 AM Description Production of Britten’s opera at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, never puts a foot wrong
Five takeaways from France’s election Date Monday, July 01, 2024 - 9:42 AM Description Far-right Rassemblement National has broadened its appeal but its path to a majority remains uncertain