The piano titan has returned to Hungary after 16 years. In an exclusive interview, he talks about a lifetime battling dictatorships — and why he won’t play in Trump’s America

In the run-up to revealing the fifth winner of the Shackleton Medal, we talk to Roberta Bosu, Global Campaign Lead for last year's winner, Cormac Cullinan, about his ongoing campaign to assert new leg...

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This gripping one-man show at the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange turns a torrid 19th-century German novella into one of the highlights of the Brighton Festival

The Southbank Centre’s second Multitudes festival – which commissions artists ranging from filmmakers to acrobats to shine new light onto the orchestral repertoire – began last night in triumph with t...

The writer, thinker, and former politician Michael Ignatieff talks about going night-fishing on Tito’s yacht, his friendship with Bruce Chatwin, and the challenges of fighting for democratic freedom i...

For the first part of Punch it feels as if you’re riding a roller coaster, watching the world speed and loop past as you see it from the perspective of a young man high on hormones and cocaine. He’s 1...

For the first encore of the evening, it was not just the audience but the whole ensemble of Hespèrion XXI that was mesmerised as its leader, Jordi Savall, executed a fiendishly rapid sequence of notes...

This thrilling production of Saul takes Handel’s dramatisation of the Bible’s first Book of Samuel and paints it in pictures ranging from grotesque exuberance to monochromatic expressionism. From the ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a shift in surroundings might rob a show of the glitter and allure it once ha...

When Giuseppe Torelli made the journey from his birthplace of Verona to Bologna in the late 17th century, the trumpet was still seen as something of a brash outsider, suitable for military displays bu...

I was 21 when I broke the record. On the hardest day I was up to my knees in snow. That tested my resilience

The ever-growing bank of genomic data we have is radically transforming our world, and as with all revolutions it will spark both positive and negative consequences.

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Give Athol Fugard a bare room and two actors, and he will show you a political world. His point of departure could be a man's coat, or a prostitute's dream of salvation, a photo-graphic shop, or a pri...

Sebastian Copeland’s images of the Arctic may look otherworldly – with their tilting cathedrals of ice, hypnotic light, and fractured seascapes that seem to stretch to infinity – but it would be a mis...

Sebastian Copeland’s images of the Arctic may look otherworldly – with their tilting cathedrals of ice, hypnotic light, and fractured seascapes that seem to stretch to infinity – but it would be a mis...

At the age of 83, Martha Argerich contains more personality in her little finger than many people do in their entire bodies.

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Over the last few months, celebrity-driven West End productions have suffered some inglorious crashes. So there was a certain degree of trepidation at the opening night for this star vehicle for Tom H...

Natalie Hewit  was the only film director on board the SA Agulhas II when the Endurance was discovered in 2022. Here she talks about her love of Antarctica, dealing with the dynamics of a ship, and wh...

Pleyel pianos were loved by the world’s most famous composers, and then the company that made them nearly disappeared. Rachel Halliburton speaks to London’s remaining Pleyel dealer about the instrumen...

It was the sonically adventurous, shiveringly atmospheric cello piece by Latvian composer Preteris Vasks that proved to be the first showstopper of this enjoyably esoteric evening. Dutch cellist Hadew...

FAA chief Michael Whitaker resigned earlier this month after facing criticism from Musk.

The Apprentice star says many young people

It took a while for journalists to identify the chain-smoking, Machiavellian figure who was a permanent presence at early international gatherings to hammer out a strategy on climate change. When Time...

Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela took the Barbican by storm last night with a thrilling account of Mahler’s great exploration of the cosmic order, ascending from r...

Lives lived differently: obscure pursuits and ambitious designs.

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This feels like the theatrical equivalent of being in a centrifuge – a wild, spinning ride through different forms of reality that deftly separates out the different layers of who you think you are. I...