4 MARCH 2006, page 58

Series Of Distractions

Michael Tanner Macbeth Royal Opera La Bohème Royal Albert Hall V erdi’s Macbeth is one of those operas which I always have hopes will be greater than it ever actually seems in......

Healthy Appetites

Charles Spencer T here’s nothing like a medical — or, as it is now known, an ‘executive health check’ — to make you feel painfully aware of your own mortality. As Leonard Cohen......