The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse. By Alex Marshall Reporting from the Royal Opera House in London. Mark-Anthony ...

A new opera by English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is always a cause for excitement amongst the critical classes. Scribblers like myself as well as the great and the good of the classical music ...

“Don’t worry, it’ll take more than that to shake them up.” The after-dinner revelation of incestuous child-rape is the centrepiece of Thomas Vinterberg’s cult film Festen. It’s a bold choice for the ...

Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House swept all before it, but there was plenty of extraordinary new music, exhilarating performances and triumphs of talent, commitment and resourcefulness across ...

Susan Bickley as Grandma, John Tomlinson as Grandpa, Stephane Degout as Michael, Philippa Boyle as Mette in Festen - Alastair Muir So this is what opera can be today. Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s taboo-busting 1998 film Festen (The Celebration) centred around a 60th birthday party at which the respected head of household is gradually revealed as a monstrous child abuser.

Danish film Festen inspires a new masterpiece at the Royal Opera House that packs family secrets, abuse and racism into a gripping 90 minutes with no interval. If you think child abuse, rape and ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s collaboration with Lee Hall results in a significant new opera A foundation stone of the Dogme film tradition, the Danish movie Festen came out in 1998, followed in 2004 by a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An invitation is waiting on every seat at the Royal Opera House: “The Klingefeldt family invites you to a ...