Fiona Halliday reviews 'The Turn of the Screw'
The list of supernatural operas – ‘The Flying Duchtman’, ‘Der Vamypyre’ ‘Der Freischutz’ and ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ - make the Saw movies look about as exciting as slipping into a coma.
Naomi's Style Tips: Oct
October tips bought to you via Paris, where its terribly un-Paris like to be on time to anything….
Review: Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, or Supersize Me by Fiona Halliday
It was the launch of the ENO’s Opera season last Thursday. People settled themselves into their boxes, all extended neck and self-importance, honking and espying like the wintering geese returning to the bald fields of my home village. (It’s autumn. Everything takes a turn for the wistful.)
Hussey and The Climate Road Show - Blog 5 ‘The Actions Begin’
Yesterday I took a 'walk' in a cornfield. This is the life, I thought, as the fresh air swirled about my cheeks. Every night I collapse into my tent and listen to the trees rustle. Fortified by cider and the nightly fireside singsong I pass into deep, dark sleep.
Hussey and The Climate Road Show - Blog 4 ‘The Band at the End of the Universe’
The road, I am learning, is a school all of its own. It brings adventures, it injects a new psychology. I came on this tour partly to see England and praise the lord I’m getting a truckload of Albion. I’ve seen motorways and grassy hedges, picture post card villages, cottages under sleepy thatch, been growled at by provincial landlords and even attended bonkers church services.
'Romancing the Teacup: a Mills and Boon Journey' Words by Fiona Halliday
A Telegraph journalist leans over and asks me if I remember my first time. I nod tersely. I remember the pink rose satin of the duvet, the curlicued wall-paper. I was thirteen. It was my best friend’s mother.