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...After the interval, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill initially left satire behind with the solemn song “Vom Tod im Wald”, nobly delivered by bass Barnaby Rae....
...Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, RRP£20 / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$28, 576 pages Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...This volume tells of a grand operatic melodrama, though played out as often by general managers and unions as by prima donnas. Too breathless, but even-handed in its judgments....
...… Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Literary people can be snooty about Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (Abacus), yet this is a book written for the reader’s sheer pleasure....
...Marlis Petersen’s Anna and Kristine Opolais as Elvira are a trifle lightweight but perfect in this context....
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