19 JULY 2008, page 43

Torment Of Languor

Michael Tanner The Rake’s Progress Royal Opera House I t’s easy to see the way opera Inszenierung is going. We are in for a spate of US-located productions, just as we emerge......

Perfect Prose

Kate Chisholm C hekhov, Louisa M. Alcott, Kafka and co. wrote them for money; thinking of them as a lucrative money-spinner to keep their families in bread and potatoes. Now......