The Telegraph — North Ireland Opera's new production of Salome shows panache more info

The Telegraph — Rupert Christiansen on a supremely confident interpretation of Richard Strauss's decadent masterpiece more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonYinka Shonibare, curator of this year's Deloitte Ignite weekend at the Royal Opera House, is an artist who works with provocative, deliberately anachronistic juxtapositions. His Diary of a Victorian Dandy inserts an African m... more info

Guardian Music — Es Devlin has designed sets for Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Take That, and has just recreated Carthage for Les Troyens at Covent Garden. Now she is preparing for the biggest show of all – the London 2012 closing ceremonyWhat do Harold Pinter, Lady Gaga,... more info

Metalsucks — New Darkest Hour bassist Aaron Deal (ex-Salome) If you’ve seen Darkest Hour perform since last summer you may have noticed that longtime bassist Paul Burnette wasn’t performing with the group, and in his place was Salome drummer/mastermind Aaron... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonTwenty-four hours after conducting the 50th-anniversary performance of Britten's War Requiem in Coventry, Andris Nelsons was taking on something completely different at Covent Garden. His previous appearances with the Royal O... more info

Guardian Music — London's Southbank Centre to host year-long festival inspired by Alex Ross's study of 20th-century classical musicWhen Alex Ross started writing The Rest is Noise in 2000, he never anticipated that a book about 20th-century classical music would go o... more info

Perez Hilton — Damn, gurl!!! Look at you go!!! After mesmerizing audiences in The Help and gaining cred with Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain has landed the star role in Broadway's The Heiress!! The Juilliard alum captivated the eyes of the show's producer when she sa... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Hospitality - Friends of Friends (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dive - Sometime (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Heaven's Gate - Salome (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Unknown Mortal Orchestra - How Can U Luv Me (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Beat Connection - In the Water (MP3)... more info

Guardian Music — 'Even as a child I was unnaturally obsessed with love and death, so in that sense I really was born to sing lieder'A few months ago Ian Bostridge, the 46-year-old English tenor, had what he describes as a "typical midlife dream" in which he anxio... more info