Es Devlin
75 years ago two nuclear weapons were detonated over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945. I Saw the World End is a response to those precise moments of destruction from both a British and Japanese perspective.
On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.
Step inside the minds of the most innovative designers in a variety of disciplines and learn how design impacts every aspect of life.
This musical based on the novel of the same name follows Patrick Bateman, an investment banker in late 1980’s New York. Bateman lives the typical yuppie life with one major exception, he enjoys murdesr and executions in his spare time.
A major work from the remarkable partnership of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, Mahagonny was first performed in Leipzig in 1930. Its first ever Royal Opera staging, by Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames, is sung in English, and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth – recently announced as the successor to Edward Gardner as Music Director of English National Opera. Mahagonny is a satire on money, morality and pleasure-seeking among the dubious citizens of a fictional city. The richly varied, jazz-infused score, influenced by ragtime music, includes such irresistible melodies as the ‘Alabama Song’ and many dramatic ensembles. The superb cast includes Kurt Streit as the wild lumberjack Jimmy, Christine Rice as his sweetheart Jenny, Anne Sofie von Otter in a welcome return to The Royal Opera as the cunning Leokadja Begbick, and Peter Hoare and Willard W. White as her helpers and fellow-fugitives Fatty and Moses.
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.
Recorded live in December 2009 at the O2 Arena, London. The Pet Shop Boys' performed classic songs such as 'West End Girls', 'Suburbia', 'Go West', as well as medleys and cover versions. The DVD also features various promo videos and the Brit Awards 2009 performance featuring Brandon Flowers & Lady GaGa.
VH1 Storytellers is the second live album by American recording artist Kanye West. It was released on January 5, 2010, through Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records.
Salome's biblical story inspired Oscar Wilde a tragedy and Richard Strauss an opera. David McVicar staged this opera of extravagant intensity in the Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in June 2012.
