At their peak, the Vestey family enjoyed almost unrivalled riches, courtesy in part of ownership of the Dewhurst butchers ...

So the Royal Opera had assembled a dream cast, conductor (Edward Gardner) and director (Richard Jones). The only question ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla celebrated Rona Grafton's 100th birthday during an away day in Middlesbrough, hand-delivering ...

So an opera version of his first Dogme 95 Festen should be a contradiction in terms? From an Oedipus in East London to a ...

So this is what opera can be today. Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has never flinched from choosing challenging subjects, ever ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage's production is characteristically bold, but operatic grandeur doesn't lend itself to the Danish ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s collaboration with Lee Hall results in a significant new opera, adapted from the Dogme movie, and ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s taboo-busting 1998 film Festen (The Celebration) centred around a 60th birthday party at which the ...

One of Bristol’s last remaining veterans of the Second World War, who was awarded the MBE for services to the RAF, has ...

The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.

Now a respectable and loving grandmother, who works tirelessly for various good causes, she was once labelled the “enfant terrible” of the Grimaldi family, the royal family of Monaco ...

Emmerdale viewers have discovered the true identity of Ruby Fox-Miligan's father, and it's not Anthony. Anthony (played by Nicholas Day) made his first appearance on the soap last year as Ruby Fox ...