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ManchesterManchester Collective x Thick & Tight: Papillons
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Saariaho, Chaines (Cee Haines)
Thick & Tight; Chaines; Laura van der Heijden; Manchester Collective
ManchesterAngel’s BoneNew production
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Du Yun: Angel's Bone
Kip Williams; English National Opera; Marg Horwell; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Kantos; Allison Cook
ManchesterSir Stephen Hough, piano
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Schubert, Brahms, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Beethoven, Schumann, Sherman
Sir Stephen Hough, Piano
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BBC Philharmonic’s bold but unbalanced Stravinsky and Adams
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Balance issues mar an otherwise compelling programme from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams
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Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
Cunning Little Vixen at the RNCM: simple but richly detailed
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Martin Pickard conducts Leoš Janáček’s ever popular opera The Cunning Little Vixen in a traditional but effective staging by Harry Fehr.
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Street-smart and subversive: Ailish Tynan talks Così fan tutte
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The Irish soprano talks about singing Mozart’s Così fan tutte with English National Opera, in London and Manchester – and how the wily Despina is the perfectly subversive character for her.
Looking for Thomas Adès in the Aquifer
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In residence in Manchester with the Hallé, Thomas Adès talks about recent pieces Aquifer and Wreath, and how bigness and smallness are never exactly quantifiable.
Phelim McDermott on Flotation tanks and absent kettles
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The English actor and stage director talks Taoism, Manchester’s Royal Exchange and his latest collaboration with Philip Glass.