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1. 1. Classical highlights: February 4 to 10, 2011

   CityLife, Thursday 03 February 2011 Baroque music, once the sole preserve of earnest intellectuals intent on historical ‘correctness’, is coming back to where it began – entertainment.

2. 2. Review: Cecilia Bartoli - Bridgewater Hall

   CityLife, Monday 06 December 2010 Cecilia Bartoli is a phenomenon. She sings music that virtually no one else in the world would try – and, more importantly, she sings it with such artistry, showmanship and sheer enjoyment that you are caught in her spell.

3. 3. Review: Motionhouse - Scattered @ The Lowry

   CityLife, Wednesday 10 February 2010 THIS was the first dance show I’ve seen in which gargling was part of the entertainment. No need to ask why. The performance of Scattered, at The Lowry on Tuesday, was by Motionhouse dance company, and it was ‘a show about water’, as artistic director Kevin Finnan says.

4. 4. Masterly performances honour G&S

   CityLife, Monday 24 August 2009 THE final production of the Gilbert & Sullivan Festival at Buxton Opera House – which has sold this year, we are told, 23,500 tickets in total – was The Pirates Of Penzance, under Alan Spencer’s direction.

5. 5. Masterly performances honour G&S

   CityLife, Monday 24 August 2009 THE final production of the Gilbert & Sullivan Festival at Buxton Opera House – which has sold this year, we are told, 23,500 tickets in total – was The Pirates Of Penzance, under Alan Spencer’s direction.

6. 6. Ambitious Princess Ida is a festival hit

   CityLife, Monday 17 August 2009 IT’S the 16th year of the International Gilbert & Sullivan festival at Buxton, and the new production of Princess Ida, directed by Jeff Clarke, was a welcome breath of fresh air.

7. 7. Ambitious Princess Ida is a festival hit

   CityLife, Monday 17 August 2009 IT’S the 16th year of the International Gilbert & Sullivan festival at Buxton, and the new production of Princess Ida, directed by Jeff Clarke, was a welcome breath of fresh air.

8. 8. NDT2 struggle to reach past heights

   CityLife, Thursday 18 June 2009 NDT2, the age 17 to 23 branch of the world’s best known contemporary dance company, devalued themselves as well as their audience with the last of their triple bill at The Lowry.

9. 9. Paradise Moscow

   CityLife, Friday 05 June 2009 BACK at The Lowry after eight years, Opera North’s version of the 1950s musical by Shostakovich was as amusing as ever, and twice as snappy.

10. 10. Paradise Moscow

    CityLife, Friday 05 June 2009 BACK at The Lowry after eight years, Opera North’s version of the 1950s musical by Shostakovich was as amusing as ever, and twice as snappy.

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