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Tales of Hoffmann

I’m still coming down from my acid trip of an operatic experience

ECO at Cadogan Hall

Martin Panteleev possesses the necessary glamour of a visiting European conductor, for conductors of flair must have lots of hair, says Melinda Hughes.

Murmurs, QEH

We older more cynical spectators are left marvelling not only at her elegance

Noises Off

Melinda Hughes is deliriously exhuasted at the Old Vic, watching actors tearing around the set with precision drawn calamity

LSO/Valery Gergiev

A season of Prokoviev is upon us, and if you like Russian music, London is the city for you

Eugene Onegin, ENO

Amanda Echalaz did master this huge role, giving us some soaring top notes and lovely long fermatas

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

His audience was enraptured (even if half of them were busy sending emails or taking photographs)

Stabat Mater

It presented us with an expanded orchestra complete with a panicked trombonist forgetting his music

Marriage of Figaro

Fiona Shaw’s production is undoubtedly the most stunning one I have ever seen

Passenger, ENO

I had prepared myself for a harrowing experience

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William Cash

According to a new book the super-rich are getting not only richer but also more dangerous — both to themselves and to society as a whole. Sophie McBain pays a visit to the volatile breakaway republic of Richistan

Book Extract: The Hellhound of Wall Street

Michael Perino

Backs to the Wall

Think today’s bankers have image problems? Back in 1933, Ferdinand Pecora made sure they had plenty more to worry about, as this extract from Michael Perino’s The Hellhound of Wall Street, a Spear’s Book Award winner for financial history of the year, brilliantly documents

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