Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, which premiered in Stratford in 1912 and then was revised and performed in Vienna in 1916, is an opera-within-an-opera. The libretto is by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal. T ...
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How to choose wines for Christmas Day If you want wines to please everybody, that will also match just about any Christmas Day food or snack then you’ll need to get in at least three bottles of ...
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Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 3 (2020) TOM STOPPARD A Life by Hermione Lee (Faber). Anybody who has enjoyed Stoppard’s plays will want to read Hermione Lee’s lengthy and astute biography. Ther ...
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Uncle Frank (95 mins) Streaming on Amazon Prime Video from 25 November One of my favourite relatives growing up was Uncle Frank, a soft-spoken, shy man who never married, seldom attended large family ...
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