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LIGHTING UP GERMANY'S DARK PAST 

THE BLIND SIDE OF THE HEART by Julia Franck translated by Anthea Bell (Harvill Secker, Pounds 12.99)

IN a town in eastern Germany,...

PICK OF THE PROMS-FROM BOLLYWOOD TO BARENBOIM 

THIRTY years ago next summer, the Proms nearly died. In an early- Thatcherite manoeuvre, the BBC decided to cut the orchestras it employed...

CLASSICAL CDS OF THE WEEK 

MURIEL HERBERT

Songs (Harmonia Mundi) Ailish Tynan (sop), James Gilchrist (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano) ****

Hardly...

Are we down to our last tenor? 

WHEN Rolando Villazon returned to the opera stage last spring after a five-month absence, it was easy to see he was not the same man. He...

Making a song and dance of Mussorgsky 

AGAUNT young actor is staggering about the chalked-up f loor of a rehearsal room, a vodka bottle to his lips.

"Russia is dying," he...

Time to face the Nazi music 

TWO plays by Ronald Harwood, both about to open for a short run at Chichester's Minerva Theatre before transferring to the West End, examine...

Man with a culture plan 

FIVE days before Barack Obama was sworn in, leaders of America's arts organisations were summoned to Washington for a meeting at his...

The face of modern opera 

The first big event in London's music calendar is the UK premiere of Die tote Stadt, Korngold's 1920 work that finally brought opera into the...

The Miller's tale revisited 

ALMOST before I am inside his front door, Jonathan Miller is telling me that next month's La Boheme at English National Opera will be the...

THREE MORE TO TRY 

JERUSALEM, CITY OF PEACE (Harmonia Mundi, 2CDs and book) Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras .. . . . .

BORIS TCHAIKOVSKY (1925-96):...