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The Guardian
08-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: a sweeping night at the Proms with Dvořák
8pm, BBC FourThe Proms are in full swing, kicking the weekend off with a 'musical postcard from America'. The night starts with the European premiere of Adolphus Hailstork's An American Port of Call, followed by Jennifer Higdon's Blue Cathedral and Arturo Márquez's Concierto de Otoño. It ends in grand, sweeping style with Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No 9 in E minor, 'From the New World'. Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, with trumpeter Pacho Flores. Hollie Richardson 9pm, BBC OneMore unapologetic sitcom silliness – and unspeakably bad scouse accents – as the Jessops accompany Sue (Alison Steadman) to Liverpool. Between a stakeout at an elderly woman's house and a trip to Sue's childhood home (now a chicken shop), there's far too much going on. But, really, that's just all part of the fun. Hannah J Davies 9pm, ITV1'True crime' and 'sensitive' aren't words that often go together – and yet this Lily-Gladstone-led series, which also stars Riley Keough, pulls it off. As it continues, we learn more about how Reena fell in with the wrong crowd in the lead-up to her death, and – via flashbacks – how her parents, Manjit and Suman, first met. HJD 9pm, Channel 4This chaotic words-and-numbers game continues to offer a showcase for an endlessly rotating cast of comics. We're in series 28 now and, as ever, Jimmy Carr is your smirking master of ceremonies. The guests include Joe Wilkinson, Alex Brooker, Judi Love and, in his Brian Butterfield alter ego, Peter Serafinowicz. Phil Harrison 9pm, Sky ComedyWe've reached the penultimate episode – and this is Carrie's most nauseating relationship yet: the English downstairs neighbour writing a novel about Margaret Thatcher. She also won't stop narrating the show with the awful prose from her own period drama book. Anyway, what moments will make this the biggest TV-show-we-love-to-hate-watch this week? HR 9pm, U&DramaWhen an infamous food critic comes to town, restaurateur turned private detective Pearl (Kerry Godliman) hopes for a top review. It's a shame, then, that her next case is the murder of said critic – who has been poisoned while dining at her gaff. But that's not the only problem she's having to juggle: her boyfriend Tom (Robert Webb) is about to propose. HR Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987), 11.10pm, Talking Pictures TV Moral panics over technology aren't anything new: radio is the youth-corrupting influence in Woody Allen's chirpy comedy, filling the head of young Joe (Seth Green) with revved-up superhero fantasies. But that's only one aspect of its communal power here: a string of vignettes unites Joe's eccentric Jewish family with radio personalities in 30s and 40s Rockaway Beach. Allen narrates as the older Joe, while Dianne Wiest as Joe's lovelorn aunt Bea and Mia Farrow as an aspiring announcer deliver standout performances. Phil Hoad Championship football: Birmingham v Ipswich, 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event The second tier gets under way from St Andrews.
Associated Press
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Domingo Hindoyan to become music director of LA Opera for 2026-27 season
NEW YORK (AP) — Domingo Hindoyan will succeed James Conlon as music director of the LA Opera and start a five-year contract on July 1, 2026. The appointment of the 45-year-old Venezuelan-Armenian, the husband of soprano Sonya Yoncheva, was announced Friday night. Conlon has been music director since 2006-07 and said in March 2024 that he will retire after after the 2025-26 season. 'LA is a city that is known by innovation, taking risks in productions and musically,' Hindoyan said in New York, where his wife is currently singing at the Metropolitan Opera. 'The idea is to do new pieces, commissions and modern pieces, something to really have a balance between what is classic and go further as much as we can.' Hindoyan will conduct two productions in 2026-27 and three in each of the following four seasons, LA Opera President Christopher Koelsch said. Koelsch hopes Hindoyan can lead works with Yoncheva, who has not sung a staged production at the LA Opera. Like other companies, the LA Opera has struggled with increased costs following the pandemic and scrapped a planned pair of world premieres over finances. Tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo was a key figure in fundraising for the company as general director from 2003-19. 'Part of my job as a music director and the job of any musician is to really take care of the art form as much as we can,' Hindoyan said, 'not only on stage, not only studying at home (but also) the connection with the community and the connection to the donors.' Hindoyan was born in Caracas, played violin and is a product of El Sistema, the Venezuelan music education system that was instrumental in the careers of Gustavo Dudamel and Rafael Payare. He was an assistant to Daniel Barenboim at Berlin's Staatsoper unter den Linden. 'Given Barenboim's extremely exacting standards, I was impressed that he had that job and held onto that job,' Koelsch said. 'And then I saw a performance of 'Tosca' and was kind of immediately struck by the elegance of the baton technique and just the sort of the absolute clarity of what he was conveying.' Hindoyan has been chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic since the 2021-22 season. He first conducted the LA Opera last November in Gounod's 'Roméo et Juliette.' 'There's a kind of a natural warmth and charisma to him. In my experience, he almost always coaxes the best out of people,' Koelsch said. 'The 'Roméo' run for me was kind of a test run of how those qualities resonated inside our building, how it worked with the orchestra and the chorus and the administration and the audiences.'
Times
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
RLPO/Hindoyan review — an orchestra and conductor in their element
Piercing audience whooping-up was much in evidence as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic ended this riotous Barbican concert, the last stop in its spring tour of England and Ireland. And I fully understood why. The wind section alone of the RLPO, so immaculately tailored, so pungently coloured, must be the best in all of the UK's top orchestras. Its players were at their finest in the second chunk of the first of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, the chunk centred on that suavely heart-tugging alto saxophone solo (thank you, Carl Raven).Another good reason for the whoops was the Venezuelan Domingo Hindoyan, described by a passing audience member as 'a total dude' and now comfortably in his fourth year as the orchestra's chief conductor. He's clearly in his
