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1. Extravaganza puts city on the map

Rochdale Observer, Friday 29 June 2007
FOR 18 days some of the world's leading lights in theatre, dance, music and literature will fuse with Manchester legends. Angela Kelly takes a look …

2. HIP-HOP: Kanye West, Apollo, Monday

Rochdale Observer, Friday 29 June 2007
ON ARRIVAL, American superstar Kanye West was christened by some music critics as "hip-hop's answer to Muhammad Ali".

3. A bewitching stage musical

Rochdale Observer, Friday 29 June 2007
MUSICAL: Into The Woods, Lowry, from Wednesday

Rochdale Observer, Friday 29 June 2007
HIGH drama. Cartoonish spectacle. Otherwordly music and poetic artistry. These are all things you will see over the coming weeks at Manchester International Festival. But it'd be fair to say two events combine all these great ingredients and more.

5. OPERA: Monkey - Journey to the West, Palace, until July 7

Rochdale Observer, Friday 29 June 2007
THE Manchester International Festival opens with what certainly qualifies as new and innovative work, but it's worth adding enjoyable and entertaining to that description.

6. 'Their enthusiasm is an inspiration'

Rochdale Observer, Friday 29 June 2007
"THE best advice I can give to any young person interested in acting, and learning about acting, is to just go and do it. The better the writing is, the more you will learn. So if you can get involved in some kind of theatre group like Northern Gap, then you will be in good hands. The most important thing is to connect with the people you are working with."

7. MUSIC/FILM: The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Bridgewater Hall, Friday

Rochdale Observer, Friday 29 June 2007
RUSSIAN composer Victoria Borisova-Ollas has created a major new work based on Salman Rushdie's epic novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet. The resulting production at the Bridgewater Hall (on Friday, June 29) is the largest orchestral commission of 2007, and a world premiere performance for the MIF. It features a full evening concert work for The Halle orchestra, singers and narrator, conducted by Mark Elder and performed to a specially created silent film by renowned film director Mike Figgis. The Ground Beneath Her Feet takes the themes of Rushdie's work, creating an epic manifestation of what has been described as the "first great rock 'n' roll novel of the 21st century" with a libretto by Edward Kemp. Rushdie's story of power and love, inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, presents an alternative history of the past 50 years of music. Supernaturally gifted Ormus Carma meets half-Indian, half-Greek Vina Aspara in a Bombay record store. They embark on an all-consuming and ultimately destructive passion that fuels the greatest musical collaboration in rock music. Rai Merchant, a world-famous photographer, narrates the story of the love which transcends time and binds the three protagonists beyond continents, and even death. For ticket details ring 0161 907 9000.