The excellent, award-winning Opera North makes a welcome return to Salford this month, kicking things off with a stunning double-header of gritty, blood-soaked dramas at The Lowry. Running between Wed 20 Mar – Fri 22 Mar, the collective will deliver a two-part performance that features both the ever-popular Cavalleria rusticana as well as Rachmaninov’s rarely-heard Aleko. An unprecedented […]

On Sat 23 Mar, the BBC Philharmonic presents a soaring programme of rich, invigorating orchestral arrangements with Rise and Shine, a dazzling celebration of sunrise, optimism and indomitable spirit guaranteed to delight classical enthusiasts and first-time audiences alike at The Bridgewater Hall. Featuring one of the most vibrant, glorious openings in the classical canon, Strauss’s triumphant […]

Birmingham Royal Ballet makes its highly-anticipated return to The Lowry this week, as part of its 2024 UK tour of Sir Peter Wright’s sumptuous staging of The Sleeping Beauty. Now in the production’s 40th anniversary year, the stunning retelling of the fairytale classic blends gorgeous Tchaikovsky arrangements, played live by the esteemed Royal Ballet Sinfonia, […]

There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. One of them is whether profitability matters. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up. Or you know the other one — the one […]

Enterprise applications are complex — there is an insane amount of information that is to be displayed that contains data from various sources, modules and users. There are complex graphs, usage patterns, and lists of data that need to be skimmed through before one can make sense of what the console is getting at. “The biggest challenge […]