Arts
Messing around with Berg
Why would anyone want to adapt Berg’s Lulu, a masterpiece even if a problematic one? According to John Fulljames, who…
Theological warfare
How many battles have been fought over sacred music throughout history? The noise you make when you worship is a…
At home with the royals
Are you following the world’s most watched aristocratic family? If you recall, they recently took into their ranks a member…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Northern rocks
William Cook is inspired by England’s sculptural heartland in Yorkshire, just as Moore and Hepworth were
Gut feelings
Like all artists of independent spirit, David Tress (born 1955) resists categorisation. He has been called a Romantic and a…
Freudian slip
Terry Johnson’s acclaimed farce Hysteria opens in Sigmund Freud’s Hampstead home in 1938. The godfather of psychobabble is ambushed by…
Look on the bright side
Ah yes, Candide, the adventures of an innocent abroad in ‘the best of all possible worlds’, as philosophers of the…
Beyond redemption
It’s a cynical start to the Royal Opera’s season to have this 1984 production of Puccini’s last opera Turandot. Not…
Platitude in pearls
Someone who knows their Dianaology will have to fill me in – did this actually happen? The late Princess Di…
Gangs busted
You wait a whole lifetime for a lavishly shot, starrily cast, mega-budget gangster drama set in Birmingham to come along.…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
Man with a plan
Robert Gore-Langton meets Gregory Doran, new artistic director at the RSC
Love rekindled
How and when do you become ‘a fan’, exactly? You can usually spot pop stars who are losing touch with…
Porn and pontiffs
Suddenly they’re all at it. Actors, that is, writing plays. David Haig, Rory Kinnear and Simon Paisley Day are all…
Root and branch
A mixed exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints devoted to the subject of the tree might sound an unexciting event,…
Reincarnations of Wagner
The many opera performances at the Proms this year have all been so successful, especially the Wagner series, that I…
Explosive fun
Just do it, quoth the Nike advert — and these men just did it. Grass, asphalt, fear, pain, doubt and…
Comic relief
Funny what rises from the rubble. In 1916 British army officer Captain Fred Roberts was searching the bombed-out remains of…
Take five
Five women, five very different stories of arriving in the UK, often unwillingly and always alone. How did they cope…
Yet another side of Bob Dylan
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
