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The Importance of Being Earnest review – gloriously madcap opera achieves new heights of delirium

Garsington Opera, StokenchurchGerald Barry’s take on Wilde’s comedy is even wittier and zanier in Jack Furness’s hyperactive staging – complete with a grand piano on stilts, a herd of cows and a kanga

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‘Music was my first desire’: Anthony Hopkins releases his debut single

Hollywood actor signs recording deal with Decca after decades of composing pieces inspired by his Welsh childhoodAnthony Hopkins says he has achieved his “first desire” of signing a record deal, with

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Nemanja Radulović: Prokofiev album review – thrills and spills from a fearless violin virtuoso

(Warner Classics)Radulović/Philharmonia/Rouvali/Favre-Kahn/DaleneRadulović brings irresistible swagger to selections from Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella, while a more restrained duet fosters a fine s

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Philharmonia/Alsop/Weilerstein review – tricky acoustic mutes the sonic drama

Marlowe theatre, CanterburyWeilerstein gave a virtuosic account of Gabriela Ortiz’s Grammy-winning Cello Concerto in a concert hall whose dry acoustic made things challenging at timesThere are venues

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Philharmonia/ Schwarz/ Ólafsson review – a masterclass in pianissimo

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonMarking György Kurtág’s 100th birthday, Elena Schwarz and Víkingur Ólafsson led a programme of hushed intensity and fleeting ferocityDuring this celebration of the 100th bi

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Classical Mixtape: A Live Takeover review – one queue after another mars orchestral jamboree

Southbank Centre, LondonSix world-class orchestras in one night sounds like a surefire hit – but the programming was uninspired and there was far too much standing in line‘Hear music in different ways