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Madam Butterfly, ENO, Coliseum, opera review
Anthony Minghella's sumptuous ‘Madam Butterfly’ has its sixth revival
Anthony Minghella's sumptuous ‘Madam Butterfly’ has its sixth revival
Anthony Minghella, the film director whose work included The English Patient and Truly, Madly, Deeply, died yesterday, aged 54, after suffering a haemorrhage at Charing Cross Hospital in London following an operation last week for a growth in his neck.
Julie Myerson's novels have always tackled edgy subject matter but in writing her latest, she was seeking to escape from a trauma that was horribly close to home
As the creator of a silent film picturing nothing but David Beckham sleeping and another work consisting of a musician playing an invisible cello, the Turner Prize-nominated artist Sam Taylor-Wood may not be an obvious choice as director of a full-length movie based on a novel heavy on dialogue and gut-wrenching tragedy.