The Sunday and New York Times bestselling author wrote her debut novel under her desk while temping as a PA for private equity companies. Lotte Brundle meets her.

Les Arts Florissants and Amala Dianor Company present the Passion story through a challenging fusion of music and dance. An empty stage with just a raised platform at the back conjured not only the ...

Les Arts Florissants singers and dancers from Amala Dianor Company perform Gesualdo’s sorrowful Tenebrae Responsoria Les Arts Florissants & Amala Dianor Company perform Gesualdo Passione presented ...

Am I dreaming? Did I really see a living composer of contemporary music given a prolonged standing ovation for conducting his own works in the Bridgewater Hall, twice over?

The Brutalist exterior of the Barbican Centre may divide opinion but stepping within its walls, with its wide spaces, staggered staircases, parquet floors, and hidden nooks and crannies, it is an ...

Many orchestral concerts leaven two or three established classics with something new or unusual. The LSO reversed that formula at the Barbican last night, with three pieces written since 2000 offset ...

A contemporary creation, Gesualdo Passione is inspired by the religious music of the Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), specifically his Tenebrae Responsoria, which follow the passion of ...

Many of the plot’s central beats remain. There’s Captain Hook to contend with – Toby Stephens on deliciously boo-hiss form ...

Don Carlo Gesualdo was a man of torment — to himself, and others. A Neapolitan prince and composer, he murdered his first wife, hounded his second and was wracked by mental illness. Only music brought ...

Barbican curator Karen Van Godtsenhoven and assistant curator Jon Astbury discuss the subversive role of dirt in fashion in this video produced by Dezeen to mark the opening of the London cultural ...