Dogme drama Festen adapted for stage
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Bring back the song-and-dance men
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Bane sailing
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Can arias ever be the reel deal?
Most film adaptations have been pale imitations weighed down with charmless music
Opera as it should be
This, at last, is what the English National Opera is for
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Tawdry tales
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Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
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