Arts PREVIEW: X Factor 2015 live tour announced The X Factor Live Tour starts in Belfast on February 13, 2015 and comes to Brighton on Monday, March 16. You’ve taken the journey with them from the room to the arena, sat on the edge of your sofa during the dramatic six-seat challenge at bootcamp, travelled to judges’ houses and from this weekend w By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Gay chorus will be ‘Putting on the Glitz’ at the Theatre Royal Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be “Putting on the Gliz” amidst the Georgian splendour of the Theatre Royal Brighton on November 30, as the chorus raises the curtain on its most glamorous production yet. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts New musical director for Brighton Belles Brighton Belles (Gay) Women’s Chorus have appointed Erika Schilsky as their new musical director. The Belles were formed in 2013 by Deborah Wolf and Miranda Gunn. Following Miranda’s departure to pastures new, Nadia Bunker bravely took the Diva Wrangler role of MD, but left this term to give birth t By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Girl of the Golden West: ENO The ENO’s revival of this unfamiliar Puccini opera has successfully shown us the honest human story in this adolescent melodrama without trashing its very sweet and delicate heart. it can be so easy to mock, so difficult to produce free of irony, but the story is deftly handled here. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Aneesa Chaudhry Arts PREVIEW: Aneesa Chaudhry Jazz Band ANEESA has built a career as a singer and performer. She embraces many musical forms, from jazz, swing, soul, eastern fusion, and duos to the full on sounds of big band – and is at home with them all. In fact Aneesa incorporates all of those influences to create her unique performance style. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Marriage of Figaro A new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is the centrepiece of the OperaUpClose autumn 2014 season. The cast features Louisa Tee as the Countess, fresh from rave reviews as Violetta in La Traviata at Soho Theatre, sharing the role with Fae Evelyn, alongside a host of OperaUpClose favourit By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Xerxes at ENO This is a great production, full of froth and fizz and presenting a non-stop evening of entertainment, with as many musical highpoint as comedic moments and well worth going along to the ENO to see this gorgeous revival. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Early Music Festival Brighton Early Music Festival has been described as “early music with a distinctive Brighton twist” and is well known for doing things just a little bit differently. From the team who brought aerial dancers swinging from the rafters of St Bartholomew’s Church for their tenth anniversary in 2012, the By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Otello at ENO This was a stark and emotionally harrowing production and one of the most thrilling and upsetting Otellos I’ve seen, but the utterly monstrous and slithering compellingness of Summers’ Iago is it’s real triumph. Perhpas this was Alders point all along, to redirect us into the dark heart of this Oper By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Excellent songs for children at the Old Market Friday, September 19 is National talk like a pirate day! What better way to celebrate all things swashbuckling than with an action-packed musical pirate adventure show! This family musical will capture your imagination and sail off with it into the sunset. It will take place at the Old Market in Hov By Besi • 2 min read
Music PREVIEW: Brighton Early Music Festival 2014 Firmly established as part of Brighton’s autumn cultural calender, Brighton Early Music Festival 2014 extends across three weekends from October 24 to November 9. This year’s theme is of cities, musical centres and the journeys between them, looking to transport attendees to Rome, Paris, Warsaw or S By Mitchell Orriss • 2 min read
Arts Calling all ‘budding’ singers! Brighton and Hove’s Actually Gay Men’s Chorus and Actually Gay Women’s Chorus will both be holding open rehearsals during September. Whether you currently sing, or just think you sound good in the shower, the Choruses could be the place for you. Both Choruses perform all year round, producing their By Besi • 1 min read
