Rodolphe Kreutzer is not a name that'll leap out from a compendium of the great composers. Yet the 'Kreutzer Sonata' is one of the most significant creations in the classical canon. It's Beethoven's ...

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Leo Tolstoy's story of compulsive jealousy set to the disturbing chords of Ludwig Van Beethoven's "The Kreutzer Sonata" is given a lurid screen treatment by British director Bernard Rose. Danny Huston ...

Pozdnyshev, Tolstoy’s tormented narrator, is passionately and possessively in love with his beautiful young wife… But can he trust her? What follows is a twisted tale of lust, jealousy, murder and ...

Opera and leider com­posers have always drawn inspiration from literature. Instrumental music, meanwhile, often makes reference to natural phenomena – Beet­hoven's Pastoral Symphony and Debussy's La ...

Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the mid-1990s and became the Telegraph's lead theatre critic in 2014. He is the founding editor of the leading audio resource ...

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At age 18, David Lindenbaum finds himself suspended in between two universes that pull him in what he senses as opposite directions. On one side, there is his faith — a fervent Jew, Lindenbaum always ...

FILM and stage veteran Barry Otto will make his debut with State Theatre Company in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata at next year's Adelaide Festival. For the first time, the company's set-building ...

Having made a film about Beethoven ("Immortal Beloved"), and another based on a Tolstoy story starring Danny Huston ("Ivansxtc"), helmer Bernard Rose mashes all these elements together in "The ...