Guardian Music — Theodossiou/Liberatore/ Catana/Marchigiana Philharmonic/Crescenzi(Naxos, 2CDs)"If you like Verdi, you will almost certainly enjoy this," runs the blurb for this recording of Lauro Rossi's 1876 opera Cleopatra. Rossi (1812-1885), fashionable in the... more info

Guardian Music — The most popular cultural entertainment in Spain in 2011Spain's top songsMaldita Nerea - Tu mirada me hace grande (You Make Me Look Great) Boyband ballad.Enrique Iglesias – TonightMalu - Blanco y negro (White and Black) Power ballad from the popula... more info

Guardian Music — Anvil, BasingstokeIt's a while since Italy could claim to have an orchestra that might genuinely compete with the best in Europe, but since Antonio Pappano took over at the Rome-based Accademia di Santa Cecilia in 2005, it has become a much more cre... more info

The Telegraph — After a sensational walk-out in 2003, soprano Olga Borodina is back at Covent Garden for 'Aida'. She talks to Jasper Rees. more info

The Telegraph — Verdi's most viscerally rousing opera had a strangely muted reception. Rating: * * * more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonDavid McVicar's production of Aida famously removes Verdi's tragedy from ancient Egypt and relocates it to an unspecified primitive theocracy predicated on human sacrifice and territorial war. It startled many when first seen... more info

Totally Fuzzy — arthurfromholland said... The Red Devils - King King Maybe the best white blues band ever!! is Album of The week! more great music like Lester Butler Shakura S Aida Donna Grantis Gary Moore BB King Chuck Berry Jefferson Airplane and more ..and more..... more info

The Telegraph — A richly traditional tour of different flamenco song forms, where Morente expressed the music with her whole body. Rating: Estrella Morente: * * * * / Aida Gomez: * * * more info

Guardian Music — One of the world's most celebrated operatic sopranos whose voice combined beauty and power'One of God's pranks was to make Joan an overgrown schoolgirl and then give her a divine voice." The grand lady who made that remark was Dame Edith Evans, and e... more info

Starpulse — Twin media moguls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen regularly undergo $500 facial peels to keep their faces wrinkle-free. Beautician Aida Bicaj tells PageSix magazine the 24-year-old stars pay a visit t... more info