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Take Frederick Ashton’s 1937 skating divertissement Les Patineurs : a trifle light as air, but oh, the complex demands that went into maki...

Very well, Hans Sachs and Fairy Edna may have nothing else in common, but they do both help an outsider and a merchant's daughter in dif...

That’s The Magic Flute in Swedish as the greatest of filmmakers (pictured on the left in the above photo) saw it, for me the best opera m...

Well, that's just about it: one and a half seasonal events over the past week or so - not counting panto and ballet, of course - and a t...

Romantic their poetic aspirations and their post-mortem canonisation may have been, but there was nothing mythical about the deaths of Kea...

My jaw aches. That's partly because the root-canal treatment continues weekly, with various attendant degrees of horror, but mostly be...

What a sorry but enticing saga is the history of Rome – rather oddly told, it has to be admitted, in Robert Hughes’s popular and understanda...

Had he not styled it a Sinfonia da Requiem , and run its three continuous movements - 'Lacrymosa', 'Dies Irae' and 'Requ...

I little thought, when Tunisia set the democratic trail blazing at the beginning of the year, that 2011 would draw to a close with Putin-...