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Lyttelton, LondonWH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person as a crumpled plastic bag. A floor above him, Benjamin Britten, sleek as a whippet, is at the piano, with poker back and (Read More)
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Royal Opera House, London WC2Coliseum, London WC2In Act One of The Sleeping Beauty, shortly after her first entrance, the ballerina dancing Princess Aurora faces one of the hardest tests in the classical canon. Presented with four suitors, she dances with each in turn in a passage known as the Rose Adagio. As the sequence (Read More)
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Aaron Cohen travels the world, rescuing girls sold into prostitution. He tells Carole Cadwalladr why he does it – and how a suburban kid turned heroin addict became a human rights campaignerI don't know where to even start with Aaron Cohen. With his day job, springing imprisoned girls out of brothels? With his past life as (Read More)
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Film and biographies mark 250th anniversary of passionate 'Ode to Joy' poetHe is the "rebel from Arcadia", the author of the lyrics to the modern European anthem, Ode to Joy, and a passionate champion of free spirits. But for some time Germany seemed to forget all about the man who was arguably the country's most famous Rom (Read More)
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She's Latin America's hottest singer with fans around the world. But in her native Colombia Shakira is as well known for her work with the country's poorest children. Euan Ferguson meets a popstar with real attitudeSomething very strange happens, in the company of Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoli, to cynicism. After a while, e (Read More)
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>>Awesome OrsonBritish actor Christian McKay is a revelation in Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, which opens next month. McKay (below) seizes the chance of his first film to give a brilliant performance as young Orson, staging his legendary production of Julius Caesar at New York's Mercury Theatre in 1937. Awards su (Read More)
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Robert Yates returns to the streets of Liverpool, where he grew up, to report on a story of deprivation and hopeIn a parade of shops on County Road in Walton, north Liverpool, a couple of signs compete for attention. "Slip! Trip!" offers the first, in the window of Walton Accident Claims – the jaunty exclamation marks expla (Read More)
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He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself out. It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines seemed to have lines – but today he (Read More)
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Bluegrass, fado, opera and jazz fuse together at Georgia's glorious medley of a festival. Kate Connolly falls in love with the music, history and mint julepsThe man who drives me from the airport to my hotel sings for much of the way; the receptionist croons Someone to Watch Over Me as I check in, and in one of the city's e (Read More)
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Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and JanacekOne of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, who has died aged 82, had a lengthy career that carried on into the 1990s, when she was well into h (Read More)
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Xbox 360/PS3/Wii/DS, £29.99 - £39.99, cert: 7+, Warner BrosSomeone at Lego really deserves a bonus. They're not the most obvious toy company to embrace the world of video gaming but not only have they done it, they've done it well and continue to put their own highly endearing spin on family gaming.After the successful film (Read More)
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Rita Marcalo's plan to induce a seizure on stage challenges people's fears of the condition – and makes for witty artThirty years ago I tried to fundraise for Fall Down and Be Counted, a documentary about living with epilepsy, in which I went without sleep and medication in order to induce a fit for the cameras. This puts m (Read More)