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Philip Glass at Southbank Centre

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Scottish Ensemble explores the power and breadth of music for strings, with a dreamlike and contemporary programme. Performing music that delights, surprises and challenges, we will encourage the listener to explore new musical paths and connections.

Embark on a journey that traces the musical landscape of each piece and arrives at a performance of Philip Glass’ meditative Symphony No.3, written for 19 string players.

Glass said of the work that it ‘fell naturally into a four-movement form and even given the nature of the ensemble and solo writing, seems to have the structure of a true symphony, though in the core it is the symphony for strings.’

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Startlingly modern and troubling production with spectacular imagery and stagecraft

Phelim McDermott’s monumental production of Philip Glass’ opera about the brief reign and mysterious death of the androgynous pharaoh has returned, and it feels strangely modern and troubling. Characteristically, Glass presents a series of tableaux, depicting an embalmment, a coronation, the quixotic cultivation of a monotheistic cult of the sun god Aten, and Akhnaten’s untimely assassination by the populace.

There are no surtitles and the libretto blends ancient Egyptian and lengthy vocalising. Not all the events that unfold are intelligible, but perhaps that’s the point. Everything is ritual and the impact is in the happening rather than the intellectualising. Both music and choreography are presented in statuesque segments. Human emotions are cauterised.  

The design team of Tom Pye, Kevin Pollard and Bruno Poet deliver mesmerising spectacle. The tiered set symbolises the building of societies, as well as the fragility of such structures. Hieroglyphics morph into human forms. The climax is Akhnaten’s slow mounting of a ladder to sing a rapturous prayer to the sun god – the latter a huge burning ball of orange light. In Akhnaten’s Act-II duet with his wife Nefertiti, the voices intertwine as sensuously as the gauzy red robes that trail into the wings. The imagery is glorious, conjuring quasi-Renaissance splendour.

A cat-suited team of jugglers provides a kinetic counterpoint to the staged ritualism, intimating the dynamic undercurrents of both Akhnaten’s monomania and the growing public dissent. The English National Opera chorus’ ball-tossing is a little tentative, but they sing with utter commitment. Conductor Karen Kamensek draws impressive accuracy from the ENO musicians, the transparency and brassy darkness is almost Stravinskian.

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Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has made this production his own, and projects a visceral mix of vulnerability and power. Akhnaten’s introspective intensity is both inspiring and terrifying. Costanzo’s tone – metallic but appropriately alien – is complemented by the richer colours of Chrystal E Williams’ Nefertiti. Zachary James’ imposing Scribe – tall and muscular, oratorically stentorian – is a reminder of a more charismatic type of royal rule. Haegee Lee doesn’t have quite enough vocal punch to convince as Queen Tye, Akhnaten’s mother, but together with the sextet of UK singers who play the pharaoh’s daughters, Lee conveys growing unease – a dissent powerfully represented by Paul Curievici’s High Priest of Amon, Jolyon Loy’s Aye (Nefertiti’s father) and Benson Wilson’s Horemhab, a general and future pharaoh.

Was Akhnaten a diviner or a divider? Recently, we’ve seen how prophetic vision and violent practice play out – when rhetoric becomes ritual, then becomes riot, and when rulers’ self-destruction becomes society’s self-harm. At the end, James assumes the role of a lecturing professor; the message is that we don’t learn from history.

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Phillip Schofield reflects on how ‘dark’ life got for him in emotional TV return

The 62-year-old will be seen in channel 5’s phillip schofield: cast away – his first tv appearance since he left itv’s this morning in 2023..

TV presenter Phillip Schofield reflected on how “dark” his life became and how his daughters helped him “take a step back from the edge” as he returns to television.

The 62-year-old former This Morning presenter will be seen on screen in Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, his first appearance on a TV series since he left ITV in May 2023 after he admitted to an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague.

The three-part series sees him marooned on a tropical island off the coast of Madagascar with a handful of cameras, with the first episode showing his shelter nearly being blown off on the first night, as well him being lost at night and looking for crabs to eat.

Following his arrival at the small island of Nosy Ankarea, he reflects on how the survivalist experience is helping to empty what he calls his “toxicity tanks”.

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He says he wants people to “bugger off and let me get on with the quiet life that you’ve all given me”, and then reflects on how “dark” things became.

Schofield, who had presented This Morning alongside Holly Willoughby since 2009 until his exit, appears to hint in the first episode that he considered suicide, as he talks about how when his daughters, Ruby and Molly, were looking after him.

Speaking alone to camera, on the island, he says when he was in the media storm, he “got so, so close, I had everything in place, everything was set up and everything was ready”.

He added: “Molly said, ‘Do you imagine what this would do to us if you actually managed to pull this off? Imagine what would happen. Can you imagine what it would do to me if you did this on my watch’, and that was just enough to take a step back from the edge.

“I could have been hospitalised. I had the option to be hospitalised, but then I thought, that’s going to get out. So I just raced to the family home and shut the gates.”

The TV personality also recounts a visit to his mother, Pat, in hospital, when a fan gave him a hug and told him he supported him.

Getting tearful, he adds: “I never, in my wildest, wildest dreams, thought that I would sit here and and look at this and do this, discover something new every day.

“(It’s) nice to discover new things about yourself, like for you, for you personally. You don’t look online. People tell you what they think you’re like.”

While talking about coming out during an episode of This Morning alongside his former co-presenter Willoughby in 2020, Schofield says the “wheels came off”.

He added: “I know that coming out for so many people is liberating, and it’s freedom on a plate, absolutely be yourself, live your life to the absolute full.

“That’s the saying, just live your best life. But for me, doing it later in life, at the moment it’s just given me more anguish than joy because I’m fully aware of the damage that it leaves. I still have the love of my family, never wavered.”

He also says there has been “such a chunk of my older life that I’ve just been sad, locked myself away, put myself into into my own personal lockdowns over and over and over again”.

“We’re here for such a brief space of time, so tiny,” he adds.

“What’s the point in wasting it? What’s the point in not being happy regardless?”

Before taking the Eurostar to leave the UK so he can fly in secret to get to Africa, Schofield appeared to rule out I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here, and returning to ITV.

He said: “I’m apparently four to one to do the other jungle programme.

“Although my best mates host it, there are some channels you just won’t work for.

“There are just some people you won’t work for.”

The first episode begins with Schofield being asked why he wants to take on the challenge of being stuck on a deserted island alone, having to gather his own food, to which he responds: “I think there’d be an awful lot of people that hope I never come back.”

As clips are shown of his career on children’s TV, in theatre, and on This Morning including with Willoughby, he questions if the “ultimate isolation can finally set me free”, or if he will be “consumed by my inner demons”.

He added that This Morning was a “joy” and a “privilege”, and he understands how he has been “lucky” during his more than four decades of TV career, until it came to an end in 2023.

“When it came to a sudden very abrupt end, you know one minute you’re there and then the next minute you’re gone, you know what it feels like to be cancelled,” he also said.

“It’s like the biggest grenade going off in your life, and you know you let people down, you’ve let yourself down, and it was unwise and (an) unprofessional thing to do, I will be forever sorry, I screwed up, I made a mistake, and I hurt the people around me.”

Schofield also said he has “no right”, to say “poor me”, pointing to his more than four decades of success.

Before a video is shown of his family including wife Stephanie Lowe, and daughters having a BBQ in the garden, he says they “think it’s a great idea, and we’ve talked a lot about it”.

During the episode he also says: “Cancellation is a funny old thing, because, if you’re cancelled, then that’s it. I assume you’re dead. You can’t do anything. everything you do is wrong.”

When asked before travelling how he would feel if he quit Cast Away, he says: “Oh it is inconceivable that I would quit, I don’t quit, I’m fired but I never quit.”

He also said he “never wanted to be famous”, but does not miss learning “a lot about people”, appearing to point to negative aspects of fame.

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Phillip Schofield claims ‘utter betrayal’ means no more presenting work

Phillip Schofield says the “utter betrayal” by his television colleagues has made him never want to be a daytime presenter again as he returned to the limelight.

The 62-year-old former This Morning presenter will be seen on screen in Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, his first appearance on a TV series since he left ITV in May 2023 after he admitted to an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague.

When he resigned more than a year ago, he denied that he had been “forced out” of the ITV daytime programme, and said he was “so very, very sorry” for lying to the channel, his colleagues, wife and friends.

However, on the fourth day on the small island of Nosy Ankarea, off the coast of Madagascar, Schofield claims he was “chucked under a bus”, and added that he could do the same to others, but he is “not that sort of person”.

On the second episode, he also says he had expected to “die on live television at 93”, but now he does not think he wants to “do it any more”, as he has been “hurt so badly” by being a presenter, and “some of the people on that sort of telly”.

Schofield says that when he started at the BBC as a booking clerk at 19, he first was able to go to Television Centre, where ITV’s This Morning was later filmed, and he “loved being there”.

He added: “When what happened to me happened to me, it screwed up my favourite building in the world, and it pretty well blew away all those happy memories, and suddenly the place became hostile to me, and that was heartbreaking.

“And the people who did it to me know, they know how important that building was to me.

“They know that when you throw someone under a bus, you’ve got to have a really bloody good reason to do it. Brand, ambition is not good enough. It’s not a good enough reason to throw someone under a bus.”

He added that “people can be so fake with you when it’s all going well, and suddenly utter, utter betrayal”.

“When the tidal wave washed through and it washed everybody away,” he added.

“The ones that are still standing. They’re the ones that matter. And I thought: ‘How many friends do you need? I don’t need 200 fake friends’. I’ve got, what? Ten, 15 friends that I would die for, they would die for me.”

He also claims the relationship would not have mattered if he was not gay, and suggested an affair with a woman would have meant a “pat on the back”.

Schofield said: “I think another TV presenter or two might have done exactly the same thing, difference is heterosexual, it’s not an unusual thing in the gay world, for there to be a difference in age groups.”

On day six, he takes on the challenge of climbing the island’s mountain, and reflects on life outside of TV work.

A video is also shown from before taking on the challenge, where says: “You’ve got to look elsewhere, and you’ve got to see, where does that path go? Because I can’t go down that one any more.”

On reaching the summit, he cited the poem “Welcome To Holland” – where someone going on holiday to Italy goes somewhere they do not expect – by Emily Perl Kingsley that his therapist sent to him.

While looking out at the view, Schofield says: “Holland is a lovely place, with lovely people… and it’s not quite where you thought you were going to go, but it’s rewarding and it gives moments like this.”

ITV has been contacted for comment.

Phillip Schofield: Cast Away airs at 9pm on Monday on Channel 5, and will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday at the same time.

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