Anthony Holden (born 22 May 1947) is a British journalist, broadcaster and writer, particularly known as a biographer of the British Royal family and of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Lorenzo da Ponte and Laurence Olivier.
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Isaac Brekken / AP Photo Joe "The Kid" Cada became the youngest World Series of Poker winner last night, but Anthony Holden asks: is he ready for the newest ...
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Laura Rauch / AP Photo As the 40th annual World Series of Poker approaches, a grassroots campaign aims to shake poker's unsavory reputation and elevate this ...
Over the past decade alone, biographies of Shakespeare have been published by writers as disparate as Peter Ackroyd and Stephen Greenblatt, Bill Bryson and myself, with more refined offerings from James Shapiro and Charles Nicholl. Germaine Greer has ...
The versatile Czech mezzo Magdalena Kožená leads us into uncharted territory in these charming songs of her homeland. Janáček and Dvořák are here, not least in excerpts from the Silesian Songs and Gypsy Melodies, but much of this repertoire will be new ...
Top of a recent Observer non-fiction bestseller list was Purple Ronnie's Little Book for a Smashing Grandad, sequel to his ditto for a Smashing Dad. Ronnie's commercial imperative is clear from his titles. But fans will be pleased to know that he ...
Anthony Holden: A stellar cast was put in the shade by a simply unforgettable performance from Jonas ...
Film Look out for George Clooney, Woody Allen and the return of Indiana Jones April's riches include Son of Rambow (opens 4 April), director Garth Jennings' nostalgic and delightfully inventive 1980s suburbia story, centring on two schoolboys making a ...
Salome Royal Opera House, London WC2, tomorrow to 12 March Written in French in 1891, Wilde's bold theatrical version was translated into English three years later, but banned from the London stage by the Lord Chamberlain for 40 years. When Strauss ...
Amid the recent surge of interest in Vivaldi's operas, few discs have been as distinguished as Amor sacro , a collection of sacred repertoire from the outstanding German soprano Simone Kermes with Andrea Marcon's Venice Baroque Orchestra. Now they ...
From the Canyons to the Stars Southbank Centre, London SE1 In the early 1970s Olivier Messiaen was commissioned to write a work marking the bicentenary of the American Declaration of Independence. The French composer, teacher, organist and ...