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Salome review – righteous fury and dynamic clarity give Regents Opera its head

Directed with gangsterish overtones by Mark Ravenhill, the tempered musical weight of this lean production of the Strauss classic brings greater focus on the roles’ contrasting dramas

The Guardian - UK

Alex Kingston: Strictly Come Dancing was ‘perfect antidote’ to cancer treatment

The 63-year-old actress revealed her diagnosis while she was a contestant on the BBC dancing competition last year.

Evening Standard

Christoph von Dohnányi obituary

Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra in the US, the Philharmonia in London and at major opera houses

The Guardian - UK

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Deller’s Welsh visions, rollicking Rubens and an Edinburgh extravaganza – the week in art

Linder headlines the UK’s largest festival of visual art, Jeremy Deller delves into Welsh history and graffiti queen Lady Pink scares Keith Haring

The Guardian - UK

Salome at the Barbican review: a gripping performance from a dream cast

5/5 Soprano Asmik Grigorian astounds in the title role, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano

Evening Standard

She left a fundamentalist Mormon cult. Then her children went missing

NEWS: After escaping a fundamentalist polygamous group, Elizabeth Roundy fought to rebuild her life and protect her children. Now, they are missing — and she believes the FLDS is behind it. As more mothers come forward with similar stories, a chilling pattern is emerging, Andrea Cavallier writes

The Independent UK

Salome review – a frankly astonishing concert performance

Asmik Grigorian heads one of the finest casts you could hope to hear, and every flicker of detail and colour in Strauss’s score hits home, as Antonio Pappano’s first season with the LSO climaxes in remarkable style

The Guardian - UK

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Ancient cave burial of 'Jesus' midwife' may actually hold a princess

The site's architecture may indicate the Judaean princess was buried there.

LiveScience

Scrappy opera company Heartbeat thrives by reimagining the classics

A scrappy opera company that started 11 years ago in New York City is thriving by staying small

The Independent UK

Soprano Elza van den Heever has nightmares from her disturbing portrayal of `Salome'

Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

The Independent UK

Discovery of lost Oscar Wilde books hailed a 'miracle'

Librarian’s detective work links three books to the world-famous author

Evening Standard

Picasso: printmaker at the British Museum review – an eye-opener of a show in more ways than one

4/5 Every aspect of Picasso’s development is reflected in his printmaking and thus in this excellent show

Evening Standard

Lise Davidsen: Rising Star In Classical Music World

Discover the rising star in classical music, Lise Davidsen, captivating audiences with her powerful soprano voice and versatile performances.

Top News

The Last Caravaggio at the National Gallery review: the final self-revelation of a troubled, violent genius

This being Caravaggio this show of two works is all about theatre in light and dark

Evening Standard

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Waiting pain: 12-month queue for a life-changing hip replacement

'If I become addicted to [painkillers], I'll deal with that after.'

The Hindu

Neziah, Samurai Blue, Pense’e and Wind Symbol impress

Neziah, Samurai Blue, Pense’e & Wind Symbol imp. in exercise. Outer sand: 800m: Radiant Star, Great Spirit, Rays Of Sun; 1000m: Santamarina Star, Sweet Fragrance, Miso, Lady Luck, Autumn Shower, Loch Lomond; 1200m: Salome, Gandolfini, Neziah, Slainte, Samurai Blue. Inner sand: 800m: Desert Star, Happiness; 1000m: Pense’e, Swarga, Wind Symbol,…

The Guardian - US

Ex-members of extremist Mormon sect plead for help to find missing children

The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints issued a ‘revelation’ that has parents worried

The Guardian - UK

Claire Foy on finding her rage: ‘You’ve got to get your anger out, in order to move on’

The Crown confirmed her as acting royalty, but she always struggled with self-doubt. Now, after a storm about her salary, she is determined to express her feelings – even the difficult ones

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Los Angeles Times

For Jessie Buckley and Claire Foy, it is so much more than talking

Claire Foy is talking about TikTok or, more precisely, how she doesn't understand TikTok and needed the younger cast members on the set of her new film "Women Talking" to help her navigate the popular app, when co-star Jessie Buckley stands up and starts doing what she calls that "flossy…

Los Angeles Times

Review: Ensemble acting doesn’t get much better than in Sarah Polley’s brilliant ‘Women Talking’

For much of “Women Talking,” Sarah Polley’s suspenseful and galvanizing fourth feature, we are in the hayloft of a barn overlooking a remote stretch of farmland, with a lonely dirt road winding toward the horizon. The sunlight spilling in through the window seems to beckon to the eight women who…

Reuters

Signs of Salome, said to be nurse to baby Jesus, unearthed in Israel

Excavations of a cave reputed to be the burial place of Salome, said in non-canonical scripture to have been nurse to the newborn Jesus, have found more signs it was both an important Jewish tomb and a Christian pilgrimage site, archaelogists say.

The Independent UK

Israeli archaeologists excavating 'Jesus midwife' tomb

The Israeli antiquities authority says archaeologists are excavating an ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus’s midwife in the hills southwest of Jerusalem

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about cleaners

Authors from Barbara Ehrenreich to Damon Galgut highlight these undervalued workers and their sharp perspectives on those they tidy up after

Benzinga

10 Weirdest Mothers Of All Time: Motel Shower Homicide, Wire Hangers And The Nastiest Bird

Mothers come in all shapes, sizes and dispositions. Some of heaven-sent and some act like they came from the other place. In tribute to the Mother’s Day observances, Benzinga’s 10 Weirdest series brings for some of most off-kilter mothers ever to dabble in the maternal arts.

Dublin Live

Nina Carberry wins RTE Dancing With The Stars 2022

Partner Pasquale described Nina as "a dream woman" following the win

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