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Video Nasty 37: Tenebrae
Before Misery and In the Mouth of Madness, Dario Argento explored the idea of horror novels causing real violence in 1982’s Tenebrae; the story of an American novelist (Anthony Franciosa) […]
Opera
Dario Argento continues his streak of making the world’s best-looking and least-comprehensible horror movies with 1987’s Opera. Based on his experiences directing a failed version of Verdi’s Macbeth, Argento’s giallo proved […]
Quiz Call: Carmen Jones
You’ll kick yourself for not guessing Carmen Jones in Quiz Call‘s musicals category, alongside classics like Boney M musical Daddy Cool and not really a musical Animal Crackers. This 1954 […]
Pavarotti
Ron Howard takes a whistle stop tourandot of the most iconic opera singer of the 20th century (apart from Florence Foster Jenkins, obviously), examining his voice, relationships and career, and […]
ENO: Akhnaten
This is Philip Glass’s third biographical opera following Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha (about Gandhi). This time the subject is Akhnaten, the Egyptian pharaoh noted for replacing Egypt’s traditional […]
Tommy
Written by The Who and director Ken Russell, Tommy is a 1975 rock opera (meaning the whole this is sung, or rather yelled) about a deaf, dumb and blind pinball champion […]
ENO: Porgy and Bess
That’s ENO as in the English National Opera, as opposed to Brian Eno, which would be more like Proggy and Bess. From the majestic opening number, it’s immediately clear why The […]
Carmen
Bizet’s classic opera is retold in this unconventional staging at the Royal Opera House, directed by Barrie Kosky. In this modern production the paintbox colours, twirling dresses and cigarettes are […]
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