Ask Miss Manners and I'm sure she'll agree: When a company like the San Francisco Opera adds a work to its repertoire specifically as a vehicle for your return, it's only right to pitch in and give a ...

San Francisco Opera’s “Lucrezia Borgia” is a handsome production about a psychotic mom with a heart. Given its juicy and even kinky subject matter — power politics, poisonings and intimations of ...

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Double your bel canto pleasure when two of opera’s most celebrated sopranos make their Washington National Opera debuts in “Lucrezia Borgia.” Sondra Radvanovsky and Renee Fleming share the title role ...

When the history books on 21st century film are written, Mike Figgis will play a founding father role. Timecode (2000) was one of the world's first digital movies, a film that sang in four ...

As the opera ends, Gennaro is dead and Lucrezia (soprano Renee Fleming) mourns with the moving aria "Era desso il figlio mio" -- "He was my son" -- leading directly to the bombastic finale. The ...

As the opera ends, Gennaro is dead and Lucrezia (soprano Renee Fleming) mourns with the moving aria "Era desso il figlio mio" -- "He was my son" -- leading directly to the bombastic finale. The ...

These two performances come across strongly on film but 3D screenings just aren't worth the expense. Rating: Carmen: * * * * ; Lucrezia Borgia: * * * * 3D isn't worth it: Lucrezia Borgia performed by ...

Notwithstanding its many faults, it felt like the silver screen's Ring cycle. Last night saw Figgis try his hand at a real Gesamtkunstwerk, Donizetti's rarely heard Lucrezia Borgia (1833). Could he ...

A cinema screen greets us. So either an unscheduled HD Opera Cast is in the offing or director Mike Figgis is making no pretence of flaunting his cinematic credentials. But Lucrezia Borgia – the movie ...

Alastair Miles (Alfonso d'Este) Claire Rutter (Lucrezia Borgia) in Lucrezia Borgia performed by The English National Opera Credit: Photo: Alastair Muir Mike Figgis, a film director of some originality ...