Smoke and Mirrors: Aurora Orchestra Goes Gothic
Classical music and popular culture meet in this celebration of Shelley's Frankenstein.
Wollstonecraft Live! – In Search of Mary
A celebration and a meditation on what it means to memorialise Wollstonecraft.
Hogarth’s Progress (Nick Dear)
A slightly too Hogarthian depiction of William Hogarth's life.
Tristram Shandy (Radio 4)
An intelligent and playful adaptation of Sterne's masterpiece.
A World of Enchantment: New Chamber Opera’s Production of Haydn’s Il mondo della luna
A musical delight.
The Marvellous Mechanical Museum
A wondrous re-creation of the eighteenth century's hurly burly.
Canova’s George Washington
Studies in national symbolism.
Hamilton
An excellent, not quite revolutionary, musical.
Midsomer Murders: Death by Persuasion
An awkward marriage of Austen tropes and crime procedural.
The Frankenstein Chronicles
Sharpe-meets-Wallander.