There is a resonance here that blunts a performance’s attack, and creates the impression that all sounds are floating effortlessly – a mixture, perhaps, of what the building actually does to sounds and of the way it encourages performers, especially singers, to project.James O’Donnell, the cathedral’s master of music, set lively sensitive tempos, but from [...]

But the producer said it failed to inspire the euphoria of the ceasefire announcements last year The mood of the Dublin papers was “give peace a chance” But a senior journalist said there was little triumphalism.. a feeling that the days of the knee-jerk reaction have passed,” Mr Curran said.Joan Boyd, editor of BBC Radio [...]

In Leeds, Jude Kelly has a major international co-production lined up, involving the dance-theatre company DV8 in a new version of Oedipus.Of course, language barriers cannot be magicked away. Such negotiations are tricky, but as Thelma Holt, doyenne of international production, asserts, if the British have a talent apart from theatre, it’s for diplomacy.Another co-production [...]

Wigan are now without two regular players for their match at Canberra on Sunday, with Nigel Wright resting a groin strain.The Bradford Bulls, bitterly disappointed by their narrow defeats in their first two games, get their last chance on home soil tonight against Cronulla.Stuart Spruce returns at full-back and the experienced forwards, Bernard Dwyer and [...]

There have been many outstanding rides in Pat Eddery’s 28-year career but hardly ever have they been accompanied by a flash of emotion The Gold Cup changed that yesterday. The Irishman executed a ride of such skill and timing on Celeric that he even managed to satisfy his greatest critic, himself. When he came to [...]

This is what all the fuss is about – the architects’ and designers’ vision of the inside of the Millennium Dome at Greenwich, designed to celebrate British genius. Who knows what the original sketches of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon looked like, or the rough drawings of the pyramids? They were built because of political [...]

Go and work out.”And whereas parents can always hope the drug-addict child will kick the habit, the stigma of fat is likely to be there for life, as any woman who has ever tried to diet knows. Curiously enough the opposite was true for men, with skinnybeans with a BMI of less than 20 appearing [...]