We have been reminded of the BBC’s 1983 super-slow mini-series on the domestic life of Richard Wagner. The composer was played by Richard Burton, Cosima by Vanessa Redgrave. It gets worse as you go down […]
The new production at Arena di Verona has been totally detached from Verdi’s story of Jewish exiles in Babylon. The costumes are space suits, the stage set looks like a post-modern, peripheral bus terminus and […]
I’m glad I acquired this enticing new album from the National Symphony Orchestra last November when it first came out – before the egomaniac in the White House sabotaged The Kennedy Center’s honor, credibility and […]