SEXY BEAST (Channel 4) is a major British classic thriller, one of the very best, dating from 2010. Ray Winston plays a criminal who has retired and is basking in the sun, lapping it up. He wants to s ...
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ELIZABETH IS MISSING (Acorn). Emma Healey’s novel about dementia has been adapted for television. Elderly Maud’s best friend has gone missing. Her sister went missing in 1949. The two incidents get mi ...
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Henry Purcell (1639-1693) wrote one true opera, Dido and Aeneas and a number of semi-operas, including The Fairy Queen, which premiered at the Dorset Theatre, London, in 1692. The score was lost after ...
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Brett Dean and his librettist Matthew Jocelyn turned Hamlet into an opera. Vladimir Jurkowski conducted The London Philharmonic Orchestra. Neil Armfield’s production, which he also designed, has a cle ...
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