Playwright and novelist Rodolfo Usigli wasn’t impressed with Luis Buñuel’s 1955 film version of his novel Ensayo de un crimen ...

A recent OFCOM study found that over 90% of young people tune into video-sharing platform and streamers and only spend a ...

Bellini did pull the drama off, with a concise series of dramatic confrontations, in his greatest opera, Norma; here the plot gets off to a slow start, most of an over-long first act devoted to ...

Two couples meet up for an apparently convivial meal, except that there’s a minefield under their feet. And when they trigger ...

Bengali pianist Zoe Rahman, because it evokes themes – voyage, migration and family – which resonate strongly with her. The ...

One sometimes finds oneself wondering whether Harlan Coben is an author or a set of AI procedures designed to manufacture ...

Terrorists are monsters. Or so we are told – pure evil. Well, it makes a good story. Even if it isn’t completely true.

Sweating in my lair, there’s no trip to the mecca this year. If the festival was on, I'd be there right now, but it’s a ...

Ben Ockrent’s Relics had me hooked from the moment the safety curtain started rising: a metal number with a banner of packing ...

It was an awesome start, those three notes from the cellos even before the famous "Tristan" chord inspiring more deep emotion ...

Fifty years since Benjamin Britten died, and his operas are still in repertory: half a dozen of them at least. It’s a tribute ...

Judging from her second album, young country singer Willow Avalon has kissed her fair share of frogs. She doesn’t let them ...