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‘riccardo’ Wagner: The Mascot Of Venice
Wagner and Venice BY JOHN W BARKER UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS, £35 O f the making of Wagner books there is no end. “What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?”......
Books In Brief
The Complex by Nick Turse (Faber and Faber, £9.99) Did you know that fashionable streetwear is modelled on, and sometimes comes straight out of, military training programmes? Or......
Music
Multiple Pianos Day: Prom 33 ALBERT HALL, SUNDAY AUGUST 9 Sunday is Multiple Pianos Day: an afternoon and an evening concert with no fewer than 12 pianists performing alongside......
Cinema
G I Joe: The Rise of Cobra 12A CERT, 118 MINS G I Joe is one of this summer’s brainless blockbusters: an actionpacked sci-fi adventure based on an American comic character and......
Theatre
La Cage aux Folles PLAYHOUSE THEATRE, LONDON Jerry Herman’s multi-award winning gay musical, a happy combination of cabaret and French farce, is into its third cast and......
Television
Louis Theroux – The City Addicted to Crystal Meth BBC TWO, 9PM, SUNDAY AUGUST 9 The renowned documentary maker, who is best known for his sly, wry humour in the face of extreme......
Haydn Piano Sonatas Volume 2
HYPERION, £15.99 Hyperion’s first volume of Haydn piano sonatas, performed by Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, was the label’s bestselling release in 2007. This second......
Dvd
The Little Flower THE MUSIC MAKERS, £13.50 The Schola Cantamus, directed by Jeremy de Satgé, presents a meditation on the “little way” of St Thérèse in words and music.......