Mike Figgis is about to make his debut as an opera director at English National Opera. But his production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia is hardly the fulfilment of a dream for the 62-year-old ...

Stephen Malkmus has spent the last 13 years making an electronic record. It was ready last year, but Matador shelved it in favor of something a bit more straightforward. So the former Pavement ...

A frantic, claustrophobic canon of violins, classical strings and haunting vocals bursting over Renaissance images of beheaded and bloodied bodies is the exciting opening theme of the hit show, The ...

Murder, greed, orgies, corruption. The Borgia family did it all, 500 years ago, muscling their way into the papacy in a ruthless bid for power. The notorious family and their sensational exploits have ...