Transmitted live in HD to cinemas around Britain, a performance of Das Rheingold revealed that the new production vies with the old one for paucity of dramatic invention... more
Have credit-crunched stock markets reached the bottom and started heading up? Maybe, but it could be a long time before the losses sustained since last October are recouped. ... more
The furore over the £650,000 annual pension package drawn by Sir Fred Goodwin, former boss of RBS, would be perfectly justified at any time after the bank's taxpayer bailout... more
A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more
The Royal Opera House's free, open-air screenings of ballet and opera have become essential events. This summer there are a trio of classics to choose from.... more
Stockholm singer Robin Carlsson could teach Britney Spears a thing or two about how to emerge gracefully from a teenage pop career, says David Smyth.... more
There has been much debate about whether Madam Butterfly is racist or not but no one watching this production at the Royal Albert Hall could mistake where Puccini's sympathies lay. ... more
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