29 MARCH 2003, page 54

Understated Affair

Michael Tanner Madam Butterfly Royal Opera House Ariadne on Naxos; Die Fledermaus English Touring Opera, Cambridge M adama Butterfly is a great opera, by far Puccini's finest,......

Oscar Gloom

Mark Steyn G Cod bless Michael Moore! The corpulent provocateur didn't deserve to win the Best Documentary Oscar — Bowling For Columbine is (to put it at its mildest) grossly......