Manchester festival makes room for Elbow, Hallé and Kraftwerk

Biennial event highlights electro pioneers, Lou Reed and new Wainwright operaThey're both as Manchester as you can get and both immensely respected for their artistic excellence, so there was a sense of appropriateness when yesterday it was announced that Elbow and the Hallé will collaborate for the city's second festival of new work.The Manchester International Festival was established in 2007 as a biennial event and made a splash by premiering the Gorillaz opera, Monkey. This time organisers ...

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