For the first time the National Portrait Gallery opens a display space of prints made from portraits from its collections – which visitors can buy! Sir Michael Gambon, Robert Powell, Antony Andrews, Steven Berkoff and Tim Piggott-Smith launched the new Print Sales Gallery today. They were part of a group of leading figures from the…
Q&A When did you start playing the piano? When I was about six – a toy piano at first, then a German upright bought at an antique shop for £5. Why did you start playing? I was utterly captivated by an aunt’s piano and wanted nothing more than to begin lessons. Which pianist inspired you…
When I was in tech rehearsals for “Merlin” [in 1983], I was asked to meet the great filmmaker Milos Forman, who was directing the film of “Amadeus.” I went to his apartment to discuss the role of Schikaneder. Milos was exceedingly charming, and at the end of the meeting he asked if I wouldn’t mind…
He emerges from his car running, he’s sprinting towards me, with hench-people running to keep up, and he tells me what an unspeakable honour it is for the orchestra, for him, for Venezuela itself, that I am doing this concert, hardly allowing me to dispense my compliments to him. He’s short, shorter than me, boyish…
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