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Othello | Opera review

Argyle Works, BirminghamGraham Vick's latest production with Birmingham Opera Company takes place in a former engineering works, but it is not so much site-specific as emotion-specific. This is an Othello which gets you in the heart and the guts. Vick's conception also insinuates itself, in the manner of Iago, into the mind, realising fully the director's credo that opera must embrace the whole of society, multicultural and multi-racial.In the ante-room, the bar has festive mulled wine and jingl...

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22:33 on December 6 2009

Ensemble Gilles Binchois | Classical review

Guardian Music — York MinsterThe York Early Music Christmas festival is a seasonal offshoot from the main summer event, which has begun to develop some significant artistic programmes of ... more info

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22:35 on December 6 2009

Othello | Opera review

Guardian Music — Argyle Works, BirminghamGraham Vick's latest production with Birmingham Opera Company takes place in a former engineering works, but it is not so much site-specific as em... more info

Renaissance