Manchester international festival: Sinéad O'Connor, Rickie Lee Jones and more Björk

Kitty Empire has an opinion on biophilia, while Dr. Dee is always a topic of conversation and emotion Sinéad O'Connor Festival Hall

Last night, the Manchester International Festival I finally saw the collaboration with violinist Alina Ibragimova filmmakers Quay Brothers at Chetham School of Music, the oldest public library in Europe. It was an intense evening on the occasion, if disconcerting that combine different art forms to find new ways to experience music.

It becomes a theme of this year's International Festival Manchester, with the tone set by Björk on Thursday. Biophilia is performed again tonight. Kitty Empire considered the program here and in the observer today. I am sure that Björk will be very pleased that the magazine New Scientist wrote about it in terms of approval.

There is also an interview with Rickie Lee Jones in The Observer today, in which he remembers hitchhiking through California at the age of 14 years in 1967 and report to Tom Waits was a pirate (not simultaneously). She now plays for one week in Manchester. Meanwhile, Barbara Ellen talks about Antony Hegarty and attend a trial of life and death of Marina Abramovic, one of the most anticipated of the festival.

• Dr. Dee continued to inspire debate. RobertMaxwellRIP said "Dr. Dee is worth a look is the first piece of contemporary opera, like Jerry Springer, who not only tolerated, but we really enjoyed it arrived in London in August 2012 .." - In fact, to be held by Brian Eno as part of the Cultural Olympiad, an attractive option for work that is fair to say, extends the definition of the Opera (Albarn called "folk opera").
• greykid
said: "There has certainly been effective in all sorts of strange ways, but often beautiful that he felt as if he knew what he wanted to be, and for me that was the one of. its real strength - very satisfying to see a show that is in place to inform MIF central fact of being new, unique and challenging waves. "He wrote his own review here.

More on Twitter, @ _chances had a great time in Albert Square: "Brilliant voice concert tonight Sinéad O'Connor Highlight'm an angel lying in the grave ..." @ Nicksmale tried to turn the piece of art by Lavinia Greenlaw and sound Obscura, which is put on a headset and walk around Piccadilly Station as a strange game / poem unfolds. I tried it yesterday and it felt better on the bridge over the railway. Nick said: "Obscura Piccadilly audio experience as a radio play by telepathy assembled from the thoughts of people around you ... Mif11 # "

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