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Barbican

July 2024

  • Bryn Terfel in red leathers as Gianni Schicchi

    The week in classical: Double Bryn Terfel; Siwan Rhys; Bozzini Quartet; My Beloved Man – review

    A highlight of this summer’s country house opera season shows how these tireless and inventive festivals are vital to the UK’s classical music scene.

June 2024

  • Francis Alÿs, Children’s Game #22: Jump Rope, Hong Kong, 2020 In collaboration with Rafael Ortega, Julien Devaux, and Félix Blume

    Francis Alÿs: Ricochets; Anthony McCall: Solid Light – reviews

    Mesmerising films celebrating children’s play around the world dissolve borders and liberate our adult imagination, and there’s a ghostly thrill in the space where light meets drawing
  • Francis Alÿs at his Barbican exhibition

    From Covid-inspired tag in Mexico to soccer with no ball in Iraq: Francis Alÿs on his joyous films of children’s games

    The artist has travelled the world documenting the way children play. As he puts his films on display, he talks about the way conkers cross cultures, password games in Ukraine, and whether ‘playing out’ is under threat

    • The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Kiss Me, Kate – review

    • LSO/Noseda review – Beamish’s Distans is virtuousic and exquisite

    • LA Philharmonic/Dudamel review – an Olympian effort from the transatlantic team

May 2024

  • Riot Symphony by Conor Mitchell at Ulster Hall.

    The week in classical: Riot Symphony; L’Olimpiade; LSO/Tilson Thomas review – humanity and hope

    Pussy Riot and a young anti-Nazi protester inspire an exhilarating world premiere; an offstage stand-in steals the show in Irish National Opera’s latest elegant Vivaldi; and the LSO rallies around a much-loved conductor
  • Huppert, in severe black, holds a lit candle and a letter

    Mary Said What She Said review – Isabelle Huppert dazzles in a one-woman tour de force

    The final hours of Mary, Queen of Scots are enacted with hypnotic precision in Robert Wilson’s collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville–Paris

    • BBCSO/Brabbins: Italian Radicals review – politically charged, expressive and technical

    • Leonidas Kavakos review – the music dances irresistibly in ego-free solo Bach

    • Boy Blue: Cycles review – dazzling hip-hop dance alchemy

April 2024

  • ‘Baldwin discovered the cinema before he discovered books’ … the writer with Marlon Brando (centre) at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, with Charlton Heston (left) and Harry Belafonte (behind).

    ‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood

    He pitched slave-ship dramas to Ingmar Bergman, cast Marlon Brando as a bisexual man and wrote a Malcolm X screenplay that horrified the FBI. Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?
  • Antonio Pappano, Chief Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, at a press conference announcing the 2024/25 Season at LSO St Luke's, London.

    British music, birthdays and building work: LSO announce first season under Pappano

    Boulez’s 100th and Rattle’s 70th are among the highlights of the LSO’s new season with chief conductor Antonio Pappano in which British music is a strong thread. The orchestra also announced an £8m redevelopment of LSO St Lukes
  • ‘I wanted to soften it’ … Mahama and the swaddled Barbican.

    ‘It contrasts with the grey British sky!’ Why the Barbican has been wrapped in pink fabric

    Ibrahim Mahama has draped London’s brutalist landmark in 2,000 square metres of fabric, including robes that have been urinated on. The artist, whose rise has been meteoric, explains why

March 2024

  • conductor Simon Rattle leaves the podium to John Adams after the world premiere of the composer’s Frenzy.

    The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; The Rake’s Progress; The Flying Dutchman; Elena Urioste and Tom Poster – review

    Dread runs through John Adams’s pulsating new ‘short symphony’; Stravinsky’s Rake has plenty of company at ETO; Bryn Terfel returns as the mythical Dutchman; and two lockdown favourites bring the house down
  • Exterior of the Barbican building

    Two artists withdraw work from Barbican show in row over Gaza talk

    Yto Barrada and Cian Dayrit ask for art to be removed from exhibition after venue pulled out of hosting speech about war
  • Rattle says tax relief has been a lifeline for the City of Birmingham Orchestra, where he made his name.

    Conductor Simon Rattle says cutting UK tax relief for orchestras would be a catastrophe

    Plea to protect arts funding as a growing number of city and county councils face bankruptcy

February 2024

  • Spirit of adventure … mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, right, and dancer Lucia Chocarro perform Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar at the Barbican.

    Song from the Uproar review – Missy Mazzoli’s first opera is dazzlingly original

    The culmination of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion day exploring the US composer’s music, her first opera was obliquely staged but proved poetic and potent
  • Powerful image … Judy Chicago’s Birth Tear, which appears in Unravel.

    The great women's art bulletin
    You can’t ban embroidery! Why Arts Council England’s crackdown is a stitch-up

    Has anyone behind ACE’s warning about ‘political statements’ been to Unravel? As this tumultuous show about textile art proves, even a quilt can tell a story of outrage, exploitation and horror
  • Roland Wood singing and looking very like Karl Marx in Marx in London!

    The week in classical: Marx in London!; The Barber of Seville; LSO/ Stutzmann; RPO/ Petrenko – review

    A day in the life of the father of communism is full of laughs in Scottish Opera’s new production of Jonathan Dove’s buoyant farce. Elsewhere, notable house debuts at ENO, a Bruckner double bill and Rachmaninov to remember

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