The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.

Mark-Anthony Turnage's production is characteristically bold, but operatic grandeur doesn't lend itself to the Danish ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s taboo-busting 1998 film Festen (The Celebration) centred around a 60th birthday party at which the ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall’s adaptation at the Royal Opera is even more emotionally lacerating than the 1998 original ...

So this is what opera can be today. Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has never flinched from choosing challenging subjects, ever ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s cult 1998 film Festen launched the Dogme 95 movement of raw, realistic, no-frills film-making. In choosing to make an opera from it, Turnage has set himself an even greater ...

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.