Arts & Culture
Music & Dance - Saturday, July 16, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Music First Night of the Proms (Royal Albert Hall)
Ceasefire's Classical and Opera critic, Paul Guest, reviews the first night of this year's BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
Classical & Opera, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, July 7, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Opera Cendrillon (ROH)
In his latest review, Ceasefire's opera critic, Paul Guest, gives his verdict on a production of Cendrillon at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Classical & Opera, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, July 3, 2011 17:24 - 0 Comments
Opera Le nozze di Figaro, (Opera Holland Park)
In his latest review, Ceasefire's opera critic, Paul Guest, gives his verdict on a production of Mozart's 'Le nozze de Figaro' at Opera Holland Park.
Arts & Culture, Deserter's Songs, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, July 2, 2011 9:00 - 0 Comments
Deserter’s Songs I Hear That Train A-Comin’
"There's a long history of trains in popular music. They've represented freedom, inspired dances, carried loved ones away and heralded utopian futures." Dave Bell offers a selection of the different ways in which the sounds of trains have been used in music and considers what this might be able to tell us about the way we engage with sound and each other.
Books, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:00 - 1 Comment
Books ‘The Golden Cage’ by Shirin Ebadi
Ceasefire's Frederick Andrews reviews The Golden Cage, an intriguing semi-fictional collation of personal memories, encounters and stories by the Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.
Arts & Culture, Features, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:00 - 2 Comments
Chess Corner Return of the Romantic
Ceasefire's Chess columnist, Paul Lam, pays tribute to the game's ‘Romantic’ age, with its Bohemian outlook and lifestyle and the spectacular chess that it produced.
Arts & Culture, Classical & Opera, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, June 25, 2011 15:01 - 0 Comments
Opera Two Boys (World Premiere, ENO)
In his latest review, Ceasefire's opera critic, Paul Guest, gives his verdict on the world premiere of 'Two Boys' at the English National Opera.
Books, New in Ceasefire, Photo Essays - Wednesday, June 22, 2011 14:57 - 0 Comments
Books">Mapping a metropolis Books
Andrew Fleming reviews Mapping London, the new book by Simon Foxell, which examines the ways the British capital has been transcribed, mapped and understood over the centuries, from the mid-sixteenth century Shoreditch surrounded by windmills to the 1951 attempt to delineate the architecture of the South Bank.
Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 21, 2011 21:36 - 1 Comment
Music Benjamin Grosvenor, Wigmore Hall (Piano recital)
Ceasefire's opera critic, Paul Guest, reviewing a piano recital by Benjamin Grosvenor at Wigmore Hall, finds a "remarkable talent".
Classical & Opera - Tuesday, June 21, 2011 21:33 - 1 Comment
Opera Tosca (ROH)
In his latest review, Ceasefire's opera critic, Paul Guest, gives his verdict on a production of Tosca at the Royal Opera House.
