These instruments include the Celtic harp, handfuls of marbles swirled in a glass bowl, basic synthesizers, and a daxophone (a kind of stringless cello that makes eerily human sounds through the ...

In 1993, Octavia Butler imagined the year 2024: There would be intense, apocalyptic climate change leading to the exploitation of workers, a massive refugee crisis, and major violent class disparities ...

It scooped the Golden Lion at Venice and now the beach-set spectacular is bringing its burned-out workers and decadent globetrotters to the UK. But why does no one clap? Drizzle falls from ...

Richard Wagner — famous for his sweeping, all-encompassing artistry, infamous for his antisemitic, proto-Nazi ethos, now evoked by Vladimir Putin’s mercenary force — is back in town. He’s back in a ...

I’ve never been to the opera, sadly. I’d love to, but for one reason or another, I just haven’t had the opportunity to experience it for myself yet. I’m sure I’ll get around to it one day, but until ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The end of the world is nigh; so what’s new? It was nigh when György Ligeti wrote Le Grand Macabre in 1978, and ...

Le Grand Macabre, Munich opera review — apocalypse almost now in soup of sex, booze and kink on facebook (opens in a new window) Le Grand Macabre, Munich opera review — apocalypse almost now in soup ...