... The return of Beethoven BIRMINGHAM Beethoven's Tenth THERE'S NO denying the warmth and humanity which pervade Peter Ustinov's new play. In the character of Beethoven, making a miraculous, once-only visitation from beyond the grave to the contemporary ...

... Substantial ghost VAUDEVILLE Beethoven's Tenth BETWEEN PETER Ustinov the writer and Ustinov the actor and entertainer there is, if not a gulf, at least a slight fissure, which becomes noticeable in his play Beethoven's Tenth at the Vaudeville. It is ...

... husband, the would-be borrower of money (or, if that fails, of coffee grinders), the despiser of the English, the admirer of Beethoven, Wagner the eccentric and egocentric-- all these angles of the great composer are covered in Rudolph Sabor's one-man ment ...

... HUMAN SCALES OF JUSTICE JEANNETTA COCHRANE The Water Carrier GREATLY admired by Beethoven, Cherubini's rescue opera The Water Carrier ran for 200 performances when launched in Paris in 1800, but while it is still regarded as having considerable historical ...

... admiration, rather that of awkward puzzlement. And yet, we know that he can do it. His St George and the Dragon and Beethoven are beautifully homogenous sketches. The first one is the combination of St George's and St Sebastian's fate adding up to ...

... more recent object of theatricality, Amadeus, it is derived from Pushkin and a lot of Viennese gossip, not least that of Beethoven. Salieri, committing murder for the best of all possible artistic reasons, it here sung and very well acted by baritone Peter ...

... Fidelio KENT OPERA BEETHOVEN'S problem opera--and this impressive production from Kent Opera, directed by Ian Watt-Smith based on the original production by Jonathan Miller does not alas abolish the problems--is the re-revised version of 1814. Ivan Fischer ...

... style of the composer appointed to Napoleon's Imperial Court and also the private, more roman tic, style that influenced Beethoven. Several of these revelatory moments were startling: the close of the second act recalling parts of Bcnvenuto Cellini, and ...

... horrifying reality and then, when all appears lost, brings them solace and hope from three famous sufferers of the past the deaf Beethoven, the insane Van Gogh and the beheaded Charles I. In bald print this may have a farcical ring to it but in terms of theatre ...

... Fidelio OPERA NORTH INTRODUCING Beethoven's Fidelio into a company's repertory is always an event. And so it is with Opera North's Fidelio--musically, that is. David Lloyd-Jones gives a dramatic, as opposed to monumental, reading of the score, which enhances ...

... Paul Chand's Tolstoy's Sonata, given in a Platform Performance at the Cottesloe Theatre. Here were Tolstoy, his wife, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, mingling with characters from the ter's similarly titled novel. And here was dull propriety casti ...

... ELEGANT Old House Hotel provided a fitting setting for an evening with Nina Finburgh which she subtitles Aided and abetted by Beethoven, Delibes and Grieg et al--New Words to Old Music. Indeed they are; et al including J. Strauss' Pizzicato Polka as an ...