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Glastonbury 2025 Highlights: Best Performances, Moments & Festival Memories

July 4, 2025

AS MANY festival-goers finish their first week back to work since Glastonbury 2025 – perhaps with a slight headache – the realisation that we have another two years before the next one is finally sinking in....

GLASS Presents: The Ultimate Summer 25 Playlist

tet

June 29, 2025

Culture, Feature, Music, News

From Tokyo neon to London dusk, from whispered R&B to riot-glam club edits, this playlist are for our GLASS readers (and their curated wardrobes): considered, international, impossibly relevant. SOPHIE...

Isaac Hernández’s quiet dance revolution

Chidozie Obasi

June 17, 2025

Culture, Feature

AS A steady and significant presence at the heart of global creative expression for centuries, dance holds an undeniable legacy. Its essence runs deep, sustained by powerful, soul-stirring projects—and the peo...

Louis Vuitton and Real Madrid announce multi-year partnership

Felicity Carter

June 13, 2025

Fashion, Feature, Sport

LOUIS Vuitton has signed a multi-year partnership with Real Madrid, becoming the official outfitter of the club’s men’s and women’s football teams, along with the men’s basketball team. Designed by the hous...

Romantic virtuosity blooms in Pierre Lacotte’s Paquita at La Scala

Chidozie Obasi

June 11, 2025

Culture, News

MILAN, ITALY — There’s a new pivotal debut at Milan’s La Scala and within its ballet company, which now adds its first full version of Paquita to its repertoire. Conceived by Pierre Lacotte for the Paris Opera...

Glass talks to Carla Tous on her breakthrough role in Paddington in Peru

Chidozie Obasi

June 6, 2025

Culture, Feature, News

From Winter Issue 60 Glass talks to up and coming Spanish actor Carla Tous about her breakthrough role in the latest adventures of the furry marmalade devotee, Paddington in Peru Carla Tous has been busy...

“It’s a matter of shape”: choreographer Philippe Kratz on the kinetic, soulful language of dance

Chidozie Obasi

June 4, 2025

Culture, Feature, News

The Leverkusen-born, Tuscany-hailed choreographer and Artistic Director unpacks his joys, feels and thrills with GLASS—one emotion at a time. Photograph: Andrea Cenetiempo AT A TIME when shreds of s...

James Norton talks to Glass about how his latest role as a producer

Imogen Clark

May 30, 2025

Culture, Feature

From Winter Issue 60 Glass Man speaks to British actor James Norton about his childhood love of acting, how he’s determined to avoid typecasting, and his latest role as a producer In the back of a black ...

Nicoletta Manni and Reece Clarke on the influence of Gala Fracci

Chidozie Obasi

May 22, 2025

Culture, Feature

AFTER A successful fourth edition of La Scala’s famed Gala Fracci, its Étoile—Nicoletta Manni—alongside Royal Ballet Principal Reece Clarke weighed in on their Onegin variation, the thrills of dance and the pi...

Roberto Bolle leads Mauro Bigonzetti’s Caravaggio at Teatro Arcimboldi in Milan

Chidozie Obasi

May 19, 2025

Culture

MILAN, ITALY – The long-awaited Italian debut of Mauro Bigonzetti's famed Caravaggio, staged for the first time in Italy as part of the 87th edition of the namesake festival, finally landed in Milan at Teatro ...

Milan’s Strehler Theatre welcomes the thrills and fresh takes from La Scala Academy in end of year show

Chidozie Obasi

May 19, 2025

Culture, News

MILAN, ITALY — This May, the Strehler Theatre welcomes artists of La Scala’s Academy with a programme comprising the Presentation of the School, choreographed by Olivieri, the revival of William Forsythe's New...

Glass speaks to Kelsey Asbille about navigating the complexities of her roles

Adina Ilie

May 16, 2025

Culture, Feature

Glass speaks to US actor Kelsey Asbille about her contrasting roles in the long running TV series Yellowstone and the thriller movie, Don’t Move From Winter Issue 60 Kelsey Asbille’s portrayal of Monica ...

Kurt Weill projects notes of humour and jazzy glitz at Milan’s La Scala

Chidozie Obasi

May 16, 2025

Culture, News

Hopping between social criticism, contamination and playful staging, the production recalls a strong Milanese tradition between La Scala and Piccolo, recounting the landscape of inequality and exploitation. ...

Gala Fracci returns to Milan’s La Scala for its fourth edition to honour the late dance phenomenon

Chidozie Obasi

May 15, 2025

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, News

THROUGHOUT her career, Carla Fracci had proven that she was a stellar artist. As a performer who took stages by storm and played all manner of roles within the classic repertoire, she had a technical and artis...

Glass goes to Cannes Film Festival 2025

Elodie Chapuis

May 15, 2025

Culture, Fashion, Feature, News

PHOTOGRAPHER Élodie Chapuis takes GLASS to the south of France to get a closer look at the stars of this year's prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Andie Macdowell. Photograph: Élodie Chapuis Bel...

Susanna Mälkki’s baton leads an impassioned score from Schumann and Strauss at Milan’s La Scala

Chidozie Obasi

May 12, 2025

Culture, News

Between soaring climaxes and intricate lyricism, the Finnish conductor conveyed brightness and lightness into sharp focus. Photograph: Brescia e Amisano © Teatro alla Scala When conducting, Susanna ...

Gemma Arterton talks to Glass about changing the narrative in cinema

Felicity Carter

May 9, 2025

Cinema, Culture, Feature

From Winter Issue 60 Glass talks to British actor Gemma Arterton about her stage and screen success, her love of comedy and starting a film production company that spearheads strong female roles BAFTA an...

Thomas Brodie-Sangster spans through his diverse career with Glass

Adina Ilie

May 2, 2025

Culture, Feature

From Winter Issue 60 Glass Man speaks to Wolf Hall star Thomas Brodie-Sangster about his nuanced approach to acting, how a film about chess became a sensational hit and his take on counter-culture icon Malc...

Peer Gynt’s moving act of defiance lands at Milan’s La Scala

Chidozie Obasi

April 22, 2025

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre

Funny, exhilarating and at times unbearably sad, it’s a tough piece filled with Nordic folklore and poignant storytelling. MILAN, ITALY — High emotion inevitably surrounded this production of Peer Gynt, lan...

Reshaping classicism – Glass talks to Ukrainian dancer Denys Cherevychko

Chidozie Obasi

April 4, 2025

Culture, News

After multiple feats in theatre, the artist has ventured into dancewear—expanding the codes of ballet beyond traditional conventions. IN A world where sociopolitical downturns hit the spheres of culture at...

Tosca’s tale of sweeping intensity and grand passion lands at Milan’s La Scala

Chidozie Obasi

March 31, 2025

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, News

Full of thrills, Elena Stikhina is a superb actor but vocally needed a push. She was brilliantly supported by Fabio Sartori and Amartuvshin Enkhbat—with terrific conducting from Michele Gamba Photograph...