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Critics Round-up: Anna Netrebko in Anna Bolena

5 October 2011 by Gramilano 3 Comments

This was very much Anna Netrebko's Anna Bolena. True, it is the title role, but the other characters have to work quite hard too. Her face was emoting from every review, and so here's a round-up of … [Read more...] about Critics Round-up: Anna Netrebko in Anna Bolena

Gloves off in Washington: Placido Domingo strikes back

2 October 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Washington Post music critic Anne Midgette was often critical of Placido Domingo during his years with the capital's opera company. However when she criticized his conducting of Tosca a month ago, … [Read more...] about Gloves off in Washington: Placido Domingo strikes back

Critics round-up: Tyne Daly in ‘Master Class’ – “remarkable”

8 July 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Tyne Daly plays that greatest of divas, Maria Calla, in  Terrence McNalls Mast Class at New York's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Her much anticipated performance has been well … [Read more...] about Critics round-up: Tyne Daly in ‘Master Class’ – “remarkable”

Critics Roundup: South Park creators’ musical ‘The Book of Mormon’ triumphs on Broadway

27 March 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

It looks as though everyone got the joke after all. Even in Utah, it seems, with no damning articles or negative reviews. Time reports: “I was prepared for scatological humor, generous doses of the … [Read more...] about Critics Roundup: South Park creators’ musical ‘The Book of Mormon’ triumphs on Broadway

Elizabeth Taylor: selection from a life… what today’s press has been saying, her best films and her changing look

23 March 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Today's press A London-born beauty who never lost her clipped, clean way of speaking, Ms. Taylor possessed vivid features known to three generations of filmgoers: Raven hair, dark eyebrows, ivory … [Read more...] about Elizabeth Taylor: selection from a life… what today’s press has been saying, her best films and her changing look

3-D has rarely seemed as gimmicky as in “Carmen in 3D’’

5 March 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

We're promised "the best seat in the house" but that turns out to be a wheelchair moving around six feet in front of the performers and rarely straying beyond the proscenium. Furthermore, this … [Read more...] about 3-D has rarely seemed as gimmicky as in “Carmen in 3D’’

Anna Nicole’s breasts loom largely on the Royal Opera House stage – “I’ll eat my six-gallon hat if it’s not a stonking great hit.”

18 February 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

"The sad but true story of Anna Nicole Smith, a two-bit, surgically enhanced American stripper, nude model and C-list celebrity who married an 89-year-old billionaire and ended up, at the age of 39, … [Read more...] about Anna Nicole’s breasts loom largely on the Royal Opera House stage – “I’ll eat my six-gallon hat if it’s not a stonking great hit.”

The worst and the worst of the Spider-man reviews: a round-up of the first “official” reviews

8 February 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Critics have taken things into their own hands and attended (unofficially) what was to have been the opening night of Spider-man: Turn off the Dark instead of the currently announced 15 March opening. … [Read more...] about The worst and the worst of the Spider-man reviews: a round-up of the first “official” reviews

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GRAHAM SPICER

Writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like. I was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. My scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times. I write the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.

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