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Bluebeard’s Castle/Oedipus Rex review – gory, gruesome and gripping double bill

Joe Hill-Gibbins’ claustrophobic staging of Bartók’s opera of dark symbolism is paired with his brand new production of Stravinsky’s psychological drama

The Guardian - UK

Budapest Festival Orchestra / Fischer review – palpable joy in a vivid Prom pairing of Beethoven and Bluebeard

Conductor Iván Fischer and his players teased out the tiny details in a stirring Seventh Symphony, while Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle was full of grisly Hungarian intensity

The Guardian - UK

Bluebeard’s Castle review – Michael Powell’s amazing serial-killer opera film

Powell’s expressionist-hallucinatory adaptation of Bartók features a blazing performance by Ana Raquel Satre as Bluebeard’s bride

The Guardian - UK

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The week in TV: Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story; Bodies; Britain’s Housing Crisis: What Went Wrong?; Breeders – review

Coleen Rooney is a regal presence in, hopefully, the last word on the Wag wars; four mystified cops aren’t alone in Netflix’s exhausting new crime thriller; and in the final series of Breeders, Martin Freeman becomes a zen master

The Guardian - UK

Shunned, boycotted, exiled: has France treated Françoise Gilot worse than Picasso did?

When she walked out on Picasso, he destroyed her art and waged war on her career – while France cast her out. Now that this great painter has died, says the woman writing her biography, it is time for this shameful treatment to cease

The Guardian - UK

Picasso 50 years on: Greatest artist of the 20th century, or cancel-worthy misogynist?

Half a century since Picasso’s death, does the great artist’s misogyny now endanger his legacy? Alastair Smart explores why this is no straightforward set of anniversary celebrations

The Independent UK

A letter … to Laci Peterson, who was murdered by her husband

Depression built in me in the months you were missing. Your story was a reminder that I could have met the same end.

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RLPO/Hindoyan review – shock but not enough awe in Bluebeard concert staging

Domingo Hindoyan brought grace to Mahler and sonic terror and conviction to Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle

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