Miranda Heggie
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The Wreckers, Glyndebourne review - no masterpiece, but vivi...
Interesting for the history of music, but not for music? Passing acquaintance with Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, a grand opera by a woman...
Music Reissues Weekly: Patty Waters - You Loved Me
“Touched by Rodin in a Paris Museum” is a 14-minute consideration of exactly what its title says: the impact of encountering Auguste Rodin’s work...
DVD/Blu-ray: Parallel Mothers
Parallel Mothers unfolds at a daringly slow pace, and there are moments in the first half of...
The Deathless Woman review - the overlooked persecution of t...
One of the more heartwarming images in the news recently has been seeing Ukrainian refugees being welcomed by their eastern European neighbours....
My Fair Lady, London Coliseum review - tasteful revival powe...
First staged in 2018, Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center Theater production of My Fair Lady is London’s latest import from...
Benediction review - the world's worst wounds
Terence Davies’s Benediction is a haunting but uneven biopic of the...
Album: Harry Styles - Harry's House
Harry Styles’ previous two albums sounded like someone rifling pleasantly through the history of...
MØ, Heaven, London review - snappy, sexy and energised
“I live to survive another heartache/I live to survive another mistake,” roars a sold-out Heaven. It’s a new song but everyone seems to know it....
'How that music was created remains to me a complete my...
It has been a difficult couple of years for us in the world of opera, losing several of our most respected and admired colleagues who have...
Top Gun: Maverick review - Tom Cruise defies age and gravity
Only 36 years later, Tom Cruise is back with his eagerly-awaited Top Gun sequel (it was delayed a couple of years by Covid), and there...