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My Life In Arts with Charlotte Newson

Charlotte Newson is a Manchester-based artist who has been commissioned by the City Council to produce a portrait of the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. [Full Article]

The University of Manchester Music Society

Passionate, inspiring and professional, the University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra presented a rousing portrayal of nineteenth-century music, with a newly commissioned work by PhD student David Onac showing that compositional mastery still lives on. [Full Article]

CLASSICAL MUSIC- BBC Philharmonic with Hakan Hardenberger and HK Gruber

Few orchestras can combine the music of 20th century giants like the BBC Philharmonic. Coming from various backgrounds, the night was an exploration of the dexterity and skill needed to play these works. [Full Article]

La Bohème

Opera North exceeded all expectations with their first class production of Puccini’s celebrated opera, La Bohème. [Full Article]

An Interview with Steve Gullick

Steve Gullick, probably the world’s finest music photographer and a name you’re familiar with if you’ve ever read NME. [Full Article]

CLASSICAL MUSIC- Russian Masterpieces

The Hallé’s Russian Masterpieces concert brilliantly displayed some of the countries greatest musicians, linking them under the banner of nationalism and romanticism. [Full Article]

THEATRE- Blue Remembered Hills

Set during World War II, Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills follows a group of seven-year-olds one summer afternoon as they play in the forest of Dean, but their childish games turn sour as one child, Donald, is accidentally burnt to death in a fire. [Full Article]

Die Fledermaus

Critically acclaimed for their comedic talent, Opera della Luna do not disappoint in their dazzlingly witty and utterly refreshing production of Die Fledermaus. [Full Article]

Winterreise with Mark Padmore and Julius Drake

Franz Schubert’s Winterreise (literally ‘Winter Journey’), completed in 1827 is considered by many to be the pinnacle of the song-cycle genre containing some of the greatest German lieder ever written. [Full Article]

My Life In Arts: DAVID MACKINTOSH

David Mackintosh is a British artist, working in the North West of England since 1990. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe and America and he has had major solo exhibitions in London and Bristol. His work encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture and performance. His last show, ‘The Edge of Things’ enjoyed a successful run at Cornerhouse this winter, where viewers caught sight of his characteristic minimalist penwork and gouache works. [Full Article]

The Walls are Talking

Rejecting the preconception that wallpaper is nothing more than a backdrop, The Walls Are Talking collects work from over 30 international artists. Much of the work on display is dark, examining themes of subversion, commodification, imprisonment and sexuality [Full Article]

(R)Evolution of Urban Art Exhibition

Arts Editor Christina Gregory caught up with Sarah Manning, second year art history student and co-curator of the (R)Evolution of Urban Art exhibition currently on at Warrington Museum [Full Article]

Leo Fitzmaurice and Kim Rugg

There are some who would argue that we are surrounded by so much information that we have now become oblivious to it, yet how is this related to an art exhibition you ask? Well, the latest exhibition at Castlefield Gallery demonstrates mass produced pieces of media in an alternate manner by the artists Leo Fitzmaurice and Kim Rugg in this two-person show. [Full Article]

COMEDY- Slap & Giggle: Season six

Lock up your sons, daughters, and anyone with easily offended sensibilities - Zoo has welcomed back its fortnightly comedy evening, Slap & Giggle, in barnstorming style [Full Article]

DANCE- Scattered

Scattered is the latest production from Motionhouse, a company renowned for its highly physical performances. The piece follows seven dancers as they travel from the North Pole to the South, experiencing and interacting with different water processes en route [Full Article]

My Life In Arts with Grant Doyle

Grant Doyle is a baritone opera singer living with his wife in south-east London. He was born in 1971 and grew up in Australia before studying at the Royal College of Music, London and subsequently starring in many productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. [Full Article]

CLASSICAL MUSIC- Hallé Opus One

Few orchestras can combine the passion of the individual with beautiful music like the Hallé. Hallé Opus One brought forth a flurry of emotion and movement, swelling with each passing moment. [Full Article]

INTERVIEW- Cupola Bobber

I remember being terrified of the sea, mostly because of my imagination taking hold of the undefined space under the water’s surface. [Full Article]

THEATRE- A Night on the Tiles

Wittily ridiculous, daftly sinister and packed full of punchlines, A Night on the Tiles, presented by the poet and MC collaborative Pen-ultimate, is an undeniable triumph. [Full Article]

Salt

Salt promised a tour de force of outstanding and vivid drama with a star-studded cast, a brilliant script and an opportunity to end the Royal Exchange Autumn/Winter calendar in style [Full Article]

EXHIBITION- Facing East and moving forwards

With the arrival of the Chinese New Year, Rhona Ezuma comments on the West’s growing interest in Asian art with reference to the Facing East exhibition on now at Manchester Art Gallery. [Full Article]

Taking student theatre to a larger stage

Rhona Ezuma talks to Guy Jones, director of No Wonder at the Library Theatre [Full Article]

BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda

Friday night’s concert at the Bridgewater Hall echoed with the sounds of the ballet with the BBC Philharmonic, led by the energetic Gianandrea Noseda, in three ballet scores: two well-known Russian show-pieces and one neglected Italian masterpiece. [Full Article]

BURLESQUE- Gawkagogo Freakshow

Gawkagogo Freakshow invites us to “step right in to a twisted underworld of eye-popping comic-strip mayhem,” Mayhem it was indeed and my eyes were certainly on stalks yet not, I suspect, for the right reasons. [Full Article]