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There is perhaps nowhere on earth where poverty is more glamorised than 19th-century Montmartre. It was a haven for creatives and free-thinkers, and it is hard to imagine the aesthetics of today's starving artists, in Paris or anywhere else, being so adored. In Scottish Opera’s production of La Bohème, the commodification of Montmartre in the present is woven into the lives of the characters in the past. At the same time, we are invited to revel in their romances, their trick

Picking up “The Fallen Woman”: La traviata, which translates to “The Fallen Woman”, was initially intended to be called “Love and Death”...

A farce that fails to hit the Marx: Twenty minutes before Tuesday’s performance of Marx in London I ran into someone I met once..

A rich kids revival of a groundbreaking “opera”: Right now at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, there is an exhibition of Banksy’s...

Half-play, half-opera, half-successful. Falling in love with someone because they threw you a flower is hardly realistic, but you don’t...

The thunderous flamenco distracts from the lack of depth. Ainadamar, by Osvaldo Golijov, opens with a flamenco dancer leaping onto a...

Do you ever take a nap in the middle of the afternoon without setting an alarm? You don’t know when you will wake up, you don’t know what...