24 h. ago Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker review: 'Spectacular Christmas magic'

Sir Peter Hall’s version of The Nutcracker returns to Royal Ballet with a bravura extravaganza which conjures the Christmas cheer right out of you

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3 d. ago Tourists flock to Buckingham Palace for Christmas Market and soon realise big mistake

Instagram user, London.Travelers, which has a huge 2.6 million followers, reportedly advertised a spectacular-looking Christmas market outside Buckingham Palace

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7 d. ago Perspectives at the Royal Ballet review: a hurtling journey from Benjamin Britten to Sufjan Stevens

This collection of rather abstract works starts at mystery and ends in exuberance

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7 d. ago Perspectives at the Royal Ballet review: a hurtling journey from Charlotte Brontë to Sufjan Stevens

This collection of rather abstract works starts at mystery and ends in exuberance

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1 week ago Livingston Designer Outlet unveils plans for its spectacular line up of Christmas activities

The launch event is taking place from 3.30pm on Friday, November 14, with Santa’s Christmas Circus.

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1 week ago 'Spectacular' Scottish Christmas market crowned best in the UK for 2025

Another festive attraction in Scotland was praised for its "affordable price point".

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2 w. ago Maths out, Mozart in: Why your child will be the next musical maestro

After years of side-lining, music, dance and design are back in classrooms - and the Royal Ballet and Opera is cheering

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2 w. ago Edinburgh's 'spectacular' Christmas market crowned best in UK for 2025

Last year over 2.3 million visitors enjoyed the Edinburgh Christmas market.

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3 w. ago Strauss, Dvořák and Glazunov album review – packs a dramatic punch

Bamberger Symphoniker/Hrůša(Accentus Music)Jakub Hrůša’s absorbing treatment gives life to three late-19th-century works reflecting on the notion of heroismThis absorbing release on the Leipzig-based Accentus label is a reminder that the Royal Ballet and Opera’s new music director, Jakub Hrůša, has for the last nine years excelled in orchestral music as chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony. The programme juxtaposes three works composed in the final decades of the 19th century, each reflecting in different ways on the notion of a hero, or what is meant by a hero’s journey.A Hero’s Song was Dvořák’s final tone poem, a 20-minute micro-symphony in which intrepid determination gives way to mourning, martial conflict and finally hope. It’s full of amiable melodies and, in Hrůša’s hands, it packs a dramatic punch. It’s followed by a compelling discovery: Glazunov’s symphonic elegy To the Memory of a Hero, composed when he was 20. Advancing with sombre tread, and boasting a pair of insta...

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