Review: Eight Songs for a Mad King

King George III, despite hav­ing been a learned and enthu­si­as­tic spon­sor of sci­en­tif­ic and indus­tri­al progress, a faith­ful hus­band and father, and in many ways very lib­er­al for his time (except pro-slav­ery, just say­ing), is basi­cal­ly famous for hav­ing gone mad. That mad­ness has been scru­ti­nized, diag­nosed, and mocked round­ly in mod­ern lit­er­a­ture, film, TV, […]

Tosca top notch

When I invit­ed my friend Kei­th to Tosca and he told me he’d seen it before, I asked for no spoil­ers. He sent me a text say­ing “Psh. It’s an opera. There is singing. Peo­ple die. From a fem­i­nist view it is prob­lem­at­ic. That’s about all there is to it”. His text was true, but also […]