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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

Prom 49: Czech Philharmonic/Hrůša/Kobekina review – impassioned playing of Dvořák and less well known Suk

Conductor Jakub Hrůša, who takes over next year at the Royal Opera, balanced Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with his son-in-law Suk’s uncompromising grief-filled work

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: an evening of belting pop hits at the Proms with Sam Smith

The pop-soul star performs orchestral versions of their hefty back catalogue. Plus, a sunny jaunt for Tory traveloguer Michael Portillo who visits Lisbon. Here’s what to watch this evening.

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Sam Smith at the Proms review: Singer promises to stay clothed in rich, soulful and entirely appropriate performance

Recent live shows have seen Smith dance in a corset and bare their bottom, leading traditionalists to worry about their Proms performance. But the singer delivers a beautiful, harmless night of music

The Independent UK

The lost art of letter writing – and why it still matters

It’s the 10th anniversary of Letters Live, where stars read funny, moving and sometimes surprising letters of note on stage. Miranda Sawyer reports from the green room

The Guardian - UK

Nutcracker/Iolanta review – Tchaikovsky double bill is what he would have wanted

A semi-staging of the composer’s final opera paired with the second act of his famous ballet reunited the two works that were written as a double bill. Vassily Petrenko shaped the music with refinement and Maria Motolygina was a deeply touching Iolanta

The Guardian - UK

Shooting Hedda Gabler – Ibsen update is a brilliantly unnerving study of coercive control

A demanding director drives his cast into discomforting areas in this clever play critiquing the patriarchal power structures of the movie business

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Playing with dolls could help a child’s social development

The new findings suggested that broader social engagement with others while engaging in doll play was a unique pathway to social development for these children

The Independent UK

The week in classical: Prom 64: Les Troyens; Prom 65: Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony; Proms 62 & 63: The Rite by Heart– review

With a stand-in conductor and a stellar cast, Berlioz’s monumental opera came into its own at the Proms; the BBC Symphony Orchestra let Bruckner’s colours unfurl; and Aurora’s Stravinsky played from memory proved unforgettable

The Guardian - UK

Rufus Wainwright Want One Prom review: a Greatest Hits package, rightly proud, if almost too loud

On Tuesday the Canadian singer celebrated 20 years of album Want One with an ecstatic Royal Albert Hall audience

Evening Standard

Prom 64: Les Troyens review – trouble-hit concert-staging rises to the occasion magnificently

Dinis Sousa, replacing John Eliot Gardiner, brought excitement and emotional intensity to Berlioz’s epic opera, aided by a consistently impressive cast

The Guardian - UK

Prom 62: The Rite by Heart review – fresh insight into Stravinsky’s complex classic

A quirky and informative script lifted the bonnet on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in the first half, and, in the second, the Aurora Orchestra – performing from memory – delivered a high-energy Rite that saw the music pulse across the concert hall

The Guardian - UK

Prom 51: BBCSO/Oramo review – Tetzlaff’s Elgar is as good as one could wish

The violinist gave a masterly performance of Elgar’s violin concerto, well matched by a responsive Sakari Oramo. Judith Weir’s nature-filled Begin Afresh, receiving its premiere, was evocative and full of ideas

The Guardian - UK

English National Ballet: Cinderella review – at once grand, tender and intimate

Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s intelligence and invention combine to make an effortlessly entrancing piece in which to lose yourself

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English National Ballet: Cinderella review – perfectly lovely romance

Erina Takahashi’s finely tuned grace is framed by visual and design flair in Christopher Wheeldon’s conventional show in-the-round

Evening Standard

Persuasion review: Ruthlessly 21st-century Austen retelling is tons of riotous fun

Jeff James’s adaptation has voguing and a foam party - but doesn’t interrogate the novel’s more retrograde gender politics

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