CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Queer Talk : Homosexuality in Britten's Britain , an exhibition running until 28th October 2017, hosted, appropriately, at the Red...

Kurt Masur has died, aged 88. Masur was much, much more than a conductor. He transformed his city, his nation and the world. Would Ger...

For Nelson Mandela, who showed love conquers where hate corrodes.

How did a North Oxford housewife, cycling in a longyi to Park Town, win a Nobel Prize and this week be feted by Hillary Clinton?  Do good th...

Another heroic consumptive courtesan? Su Xiao Xiao (So Siu Siu, 蘇小小) was a real person though relatively little is known about her since ...

I can remember AIDS even before it had a name. At first it was just rumours and then everyone started to die, even "respectable" h...

Dissident Ai wei wei poses naked with women? Far more radical was this event in the late 1920's in Shanghai where a group of artists pos...

In March, 1999, Michael Aris passed away. He was the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese dissident, who is still under arrest in Myanma...

Please note a proper formal review will shortly appear in Opera Today which will be different to these - pithier ! It's a good site, pl...

See REVIEW above ! After experiencing Koyaanisqatsi twice, I thought I was inoculated against Philip Glass. However, a friend, who kno...