25 JANUARY 2003, page 56

Inflaming Hearts

Michael Tanner M onteverdi's Orfeo is an intensely moralistic work. Although La Musica launches it by telling us, and showing us, how 'now with noble anger, now with love' she......

Ideal Trio

Giannandrea Poem() A though his work might not be everybody's favourite, Jiri Kylian remains one of the most eminent and significant figures of European modern ballet. His......

That's Showbiz

Mark Steyn C hicago opened in December, getting lost in the great Speccie void of the Christmas double-issue, but it just won a bunch of Golden Globes and there's Oscar talk in......