The people at Heartbeat Opera--that dazzling reinvention-machine for taking works that you think you might have heard one ...

Predictably, there have been more reactions to this column on my assertion that John the Baptist received and gave to mankind the great Revelation generally referred to as the Revelation of John.

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Commendably, the government has risen to the occasion by taking up public complaints against the obvious royal misconduct.

After watching the five-star, tension-loaded Festen at the Royal Opera, David Benedict ponders what the real difference is ...

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In a political week that has fed gossipmongers a feast fit for the gods, MK Party president Jacob Zuma faced the biggest test ...

King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised ...

Almost everyone in Salome wants something they shouldn’t. A king desires his stepdaughter, a servant desires a princess and a princess desires a prisoner with equal parts fascination and repulsion.

By Zachary Woolfe Strauss’s “Salome” begins with a swiftly slithering clarinet flourish, like a snake darting into the undergrowth almost before you see it. The passage is over in a couple ...