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Nilanjana Roy
The delights of year-end reading lists
...That is a wonderfully calming number — once you know you can’t possibly read over two million books a year, it frees you up....
November 21, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
Why authors’ letters sometimes say more than their books
...Writers may have a stage persona or a practised interview self, but over a lifetime of letters, the truth of an individual emerges....
April 23, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewMusic
Opera Forward Festival takes on Shell and Antigone in Amsterdam
...It has a hectoring, agitprop feel to it, capped off by a burning house (hello, Greta) and, finally, a massive children’s choir....
March 18, 2024
ReviewBooks
The Crisis of Culture by Olivier Roy — a remarkable achievement
...In Roy’s telling, this new reality is the result of a complex cocktail of events and factors....
March 22, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
The bliss — and benefits — of slow reading
...I promise that if you commit to a classic or a story cycle of your choice — all of Terry Pratchett, for instance, or a spring of Shirley Jackson, or a few daily lines by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud...
January 1, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
Travelling mindfully through the pages of a book
...a short walk away....
April 8, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
ReviewMusic
Bavarian State Opera’s Die Passagierin — radically revised Holocaust opera is lean and powerful
...She survived Auschwitz, and her play, which went on to become a television drama, a feature film, a novel and an opera, is an examination of her experiences there....
March 12, 2024
ReviewMusic
Die Jüdin von Toledo at Semperoper Dresden is a dazzling but difficult opera — review
...A huge orchestra, a top-drawer cast, a high-carat stage director and a fine conductor — what’s not to love? Glanert, who has already penned a dozen operas, knows what he is doing....
February 12, 2024
ReviewMusic
Rusalka, Staatsoper Berlin — eels and out-of-sync singing sink new production
...His staging for the Staatsoper had the titular water-nymph as a disaffected young woman from a Berlin houseshare, whose lust for the rich boy upstairs causes her to mutate into a kind of distended earwig...
February 6, 2024
ReviewMusic
Der goldene Hahn at the Komische Oper Berlin, review — what did we just watch?
...Rufus Didwiszus’s sets and Victoria Behr’s costumes present us with a kind of dismal high camp on the tundra — Dodon’s kingdom is nothing but a patch of dry scrub, with a dead tree for the titular golden...
January 30, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
It’s a golden age
...Reading this fresh wave of histories feels like opening a door to a much richer sense of the past....
March 19, 2024
ReviewMusic
A weighty yet exhilarating New Year’s Eve concert from the Berliner Philharmoniker
...Petrenko used the considerable force of a Berliner Philharmoniker on top form as a narrator, drawing us into a completely theatrical experience....
January 2, 2024
Roy Swan
The Church of England’s historic gesture holds lessons for investors
...This first step by the Church Commissioners for England is a giant leap towards a brighter future for us all....
March 4, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
What makes a literary city?
..., rumours, food, cigarettes and tea — and can take place anywhere: in a private home, a local tea shop, the park or a veranda.”...
February 14, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
The secret of a bestseller? Why word of mouth beats algorithms
...them, reading is a community act....
February 27, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
InterviewMusic
Conductor Elim Chan: ‘Hong Kong is special. It’s like the hardware is Chinese, but the software is British’
...But even for those born with perfect pitch and a photographic memory, there are no shortcuts. As a pianist, a choral singer, and later a cellist and orchestral player, Chan had a good start....
January 16, 2024
ReviewMusic
Silver balls, rippling water and sniggers in The Timeless Moment at the Staatsoper Berlin — review
...After some time, a girl dressed as a beekeeper enters, carrying a fishing net which she uses as a stick to tap her way through the set....
January 8, 2024
ReviewMusic
Mary, Queen of Scots, Oper Leipzig — medieval monarch gets steampunk makeover
...Surely, if there was a way to be a woman without playing either a wench or a man, Mary embodied it. Not here. What a lost opportunity. ★★★☆☆ To February 11, oper-leipzig.de...
December 19, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
The British Library cyber breach was an attack on the world’s knowledge
...In 2021, the Boston Public Library was hit by a ransomware attack that shut down its systems for a week; the library took months to recover fully....
January 31, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
Our enduring fascination with Kafka
...On my travels, I’ve encountered him in unexpected ways and places: a fisherman who lives in a hut on Trivandrum beach shows me his favourite book, a Malayalam translation of The Castle, and a quiet professor...
January 15, 2024
ReviewMusic
Operatic miniatures in Berlin are innovative takes on chamber music
...It is a skill set. This was the instant when the evening became more than a chamber music concert....
November 28, 2023
ReviewMusic
Five stars for Staatsoper Hamburg’s thrilling, disturbing Salome — review
...Salome instead gives a short punk performance and then strips with a matter-of-fact innocence, like a child at a medical examination, to her underwear....
October 31, 2023
Letter
Letter: Collapsing Sumerians or standing-firm Pharaohs
...The review might have used Albert Camus’ L’Étranger (The Outsider) as a more useful analogy. I say this because the crises Roy describes as “novel” are perhaps not so novel after all....
April 12, 2024
ReviewMusic
Médée, Berlin Staatsoper review — Magdalena Kožená is a force of nature as the mythical child-murderer
...This is both a rarity and a musical treat, so why do the three and a quarter hours take so very long to pass?...
November 22, 2023
ReviewMusic
Deutsche Opera Berlin’s Il trittico is a crowd-pleasing mess
...A lot....
October 4, 2023

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