Out & About January 2018

OA what’s on

January dates for your diary

Bold new take on Mozart classic

The Magic Flute Oxford Playhouse Thursday, January 11 www.oxfordplayhouse.com

If you’re up for two hours of innovatively-staged, unintimidating, affordable opera, Oxford Playhouse’s Magic Flute is just the ticket. OperaUpClose is an ambitious, Olivier Award- winning opera company that produces high quality English chamber re-imaginings of well- known works and premieres of new operas. Invited behind the velvet rope at London’s most exclusive club, Tamino doesn’t have time to stop for beggars, paparazzi, or even his girlfriend Pamina. Going to bed after a blazing row later that night, they relive the events and encounters of the evening in dreams made extraordinary by the lateness of the hour, their befuddled senses and a touch of magic.

NEW YEAR WITH BITE BLUES

ARLINGTON ARTS

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25

ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART

www.arlingtonarts.co.uk

Grammy Award-winning Alvin Youngblood Hart brings his all-electric Muscle Theory to Newbury. The ‘cosmic love child’ of Howlin’ Wolf and Link Wray – known as a ‘musician’s musician’, Alvin Youngblood Hart’s praises have been sung by everyone from Bob Dylan to Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor. Since the release of his 1996 debut recording, the all-acoustic Big Mama’s Door , Hart has relayed his eclectic musical message around the world. That recording pushed him to receive the 1996 Handy Award for Best New Blues Artist. 2004 saw his first Grammy nomination and 2005 his first win. An evening with his all-electric Muscle Theory will be exactly as it sounds: powerful, visceral, intelligent and audacious.

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