Ian Irvine

Articles by Ian Irvine

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Uncommon man

  • 19 February 2009

John Adams's operas have laid the foundations of a distinctively American classical tradition. But, outside Carnegie Hall, the United States remains a nation profoundly uncomfortable with high culture

Books of the Year 2008

  • 18 December 2008

Selected by Ian Irvine, NS books editor

The drowned world

  • 04 December 2008

Elaborate stagecraft is superfluous in a piece as spare and grim as a Norse epic
Riders to the Sea Coliseum, London WC2

A thousand flowers

  • 18 September 2008

In his seventh decade, John Adams's musical fertility still springs anew

Of love and hunger

  • 14 August 2008

Two inventive new productions showcase the best of Glyndebourne
Hänsel und Gretel Love and Other Demons Glyndebourne

Unenlightened behaviour

  • 03 July 2008
  • 1 comment

Clunking anti-Americanism mars a bold updating of Bernstein's work
Candide
Coliseum, London WC2

How lust conquers all

  • 22 May 2008

Glyndebourne's first night lived up to the buzz with a passion-filled masterpiece
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Glyndebourne Festival

Pick of 2005: Opera

  • 19 December 2005

Parallel lives

  • 03 October 2005

Edge of the Orison: in the traces of John Clare's "journey out of Essex"
Iain Sinclair Hamish Hamilton, 400pp, £16.99
ISBN 0241142180

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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