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In one of the loveliest operatic scores of all time, Dvořák makes cruel demands on his eponymous water nymph and the prince for whom she…

The stern and glowering demeanour of David Morrissey’s character, Michael Polly, looms over this six-part drama like the embodiment of a…

In Paolo Sorrentino’s new film La Grazia, Tony Servillo portrays a fictitious Italian president, the ageing Mariano De Santis, who – in the…

Solo albums by musicians from established bands can be interesting beasts - not least when discovering which route they’ve decided to take…

“Your term is about to end,” Italian president De Santis (Toni Servillo) is told, with implications which extend far past politics.…

Have you ever witnessed both a Tristan and an Isolde physically plausible and vocally up to everything that Wagner throws at them, from…

Although it was released as a single in November 1968, The Goodees’ “Condition Red” could – apart from a specific quirk – have been issued…

Though there are few starry, starry nights in Stockwell these days, nor flaming flowers that brightly blaze, you can find ragged men in…

The Hail Mary pass is a desperate act of sporting faith when regular tactics fail, and the world’s end is faced here by constitutional…