Lorin Maazel’s opera based on George Orwell’s 1984 opened in London Tuesday night (see Tuesday’s MobyLives news digest) and the reviews in yesterday’s newspapers were not good. A BBC News… Read more »
The creative forces behind a new opera based on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four are finding they “did not have to work hard to make George Orwell’s nightmarish vision of a… Read more »
One of rock’s greatest lyricists, and most versatile stylists, Elvis Costello, has announced he will write “a piece of lyric theatre based on the life of the great fairy tale… Read more »
Even during the dissolution of the band, Ringo Starr says there was “still love and contact” between the members of The Beatles. To prove it, he’s collected postcards the band… Read more »