Dame Judi Dench has recalled the time she lost her voice after a lifelong fear of snakes came home to roost while she was ...

The BBC has launched a new podcast feed, Artworks, the home for imaginative documentaries about culture and the arts from BBC ...

While opera-lovers wait eagerly for soprano Julia Bullock’s appearance in the latest John Adams lyric drama, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at the Met in May, Bullock continues to tantalize us with some other ...

History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with ...

Richard Johnson was undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest actors from the 1950s until his death in 2015 at a good old age of 87, his ashes ...

The beginning of the end came when Mark Antony and Cleopatra combined forces to fight ... and she went down in history as the last pharaoh. History, art and literature have been enamoured of ...

She has become a popular figure in media, literature, and art, and her enchanting qualities ... and after their win, Mark Antony and Octavian ruled over Rome. Pharaoh Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and ...

The strand will be the home of BBC Radio 4’s original documentaries about culture and the arts… The BBC has launched a new ...

I will quote just a little from two of the chapters: on Othello and Antony and Cleopatra. (Those are two of the plays I have a decent knowledge of, and two of the plays I value most.) Listen to ...