The tale is an Americanised version of the good old country house mystery, and behind the superficial veneer of fabulous homes and expensive boats lurks a hinterland of avarice and cruel intentions.

Korean opera traditionally tells its stories via a hybrid blend of singing, speech and movement (Pansori), and it’s unlike anything most Western audiences have heard before. The vocals are projected ...

Stepping boldly and brassily into the lead role is Sophie Turner (who, once upon a time, played Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones). We first meet her when she’s living with Gary, a brutal, womanising ...

Lively shamanic grooves fill the band’s third album of new songs in as many years, as our favourite mask-wearing mystics channel uplifting, yet primal chants and mind-blowing cosmic jams with some ...

Having begun with a more straight-laced indie rock sound in their early days, the London quartet have shifted through modes and accents. With 2008's Viva La Vida, the group embraced a theatrical and ...

In the 60 years since Kenya gained independence from Britain, tensions between the descendants of colonial Europeans and Kenyans have flared up periodically, and in recent years climate change has ...

So entranced was he by the river that, over the next three years, he came back twice to continue working on a series that would mushroom to over 100 canvases. Waterloo Bridge, Overcast 1903 (main ...

Who’s laughing now? Joaquin Phoenix as Joker gets a none-too-warm welcome in his new Gotham City homeScott Garfield/Warner Bros Ent ...

Nothing particularly odd about this except that the virtually unknown composer – Orazio Benevoli, master of the Colossal Baroque – split his choir into four separate groups and wrote them a kind of ...

The voice of La Stupenda must have been the most recorded in history, given Decca’s lavish heyday (La Divina, Callas, just missed EMI's stereo best). Even before we get to the two boxes of complete ...

And who invited you?: Francesca Hayward as Alice, Valentino Zucchetti as the March Hare and Steven McRae as the Mad Hatter Photo: Alice Pennefather Joby Talbot’s score, written for an orchestra so ...

Was it because of it seemed to be a warning about the dangers of populism? Such warnings are always welcome, but this isn’t the piece to do that. In its original form it was a punchy Elia Kazan film ...