... Watford Beethoven's Tenth Bringing Beethoven back to life to be kitted out with the latest in 20th Century hearing aids to listen to his last symphonies for the first time on CD is an amusing idea. So is Peter Ustinov's plan to pull the late composer ...

... to assemble them in a satisfying dramatic form. His last play to date, Beethoven's Tenth, first seen in 1983, is a case in point. Here we have a gem of a theme Ludwig van Beethoven, summoned from the beyond by an Austrian au pair girl, suddenly materialising ...

... Roll over Beethoven THE 100 Club in Oxford Street, four decades a home to every shade and colour of jazz, was witness to an unprecedented event last year when Dick Knowles and Paul Wilson were hosts to jazz from the London Colleges. On display were ...

... Beethoven's timing just right Chichester Beethoven's Tenth Peter Ustinov has returned to Chichester Festival Theatre to re-create the role of the composer in his own play Beethoven's Tenth. The play takes place in the house of music critic Stephen Fieldgate ...

... Fidelio Glasgow SCOTTISH Opera takes on Beethoven in a new production of Fidelio and neither party survives unscarred. Shifting the action from Spain to France adds nothing of significance. The first act set (designer Derek McLane) a solid, war-torn facade ...

... early stages of their careers, to work with an excellent artistic team, here led by director Robert Chevara. In Fidelio, Beethoven demands much of singers and musicians alike in his quest to express a wide range of emotions in a bleak and dismal setting ...

... Fidelio GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL OPERA GLYNDEBOURNE Festival Opera's concert performances of Beethoven's Fidelio have been dogged from the start. By the time I came to hear it at the Royal Festival Hall, Peter Seiffert (Florestan) had succumbed to illness ...

... Stuff and nonsense ROYAL OPERA HOUSE Fidelio (Beethoven) I STILL live in hope of seeing a production of Beethoven's Fidelio which works, at least most of the time. It's all too easy to point to Daws in the opera, but that is the coward's way out. Certainly ...

... of Warhol and Rothko to produce a dayglo delight of an arena in which to stage the performance. Although Fidelio is not Beethoven's finest work, Albery has cajoled some memorable performances from his cast, notably Matthew Best as the bru tal prison chief ...

... and compassion in a harsh world, with a dramatic intensity which builds inexorably to the memorable finale that climaxes Beethoven's onlv opera. The production partnership of Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser, with designs by Christian Fenouillat, opted ...

... as if suspended ir space. Unforgettable. Inevitably, the sound has tc be amplified but the ear does gradually adjust and Beethoven's essential musical thrust anc human message in the enc pierces this web of disposable multiple happenings. Gabriel Maria ...

... music students who changed course to become actors, play well enough to make audiences gasp in admiration, tackling Mozart, Beethoven and a daunting dose of Bach with considerable elan. Better, they say, to give up ideas of being the best pianist in the world ...