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Spectator Play: what’s worth – or not worth – watching, listening to or going to this weekend

I’m So Excited is the latest offering from Pedro Almodóvar who, Deborah Ross says, she would usually love. But is I’m So Excited quite so, well, exciting? The trailer, which promises singing gay flight attendants, The Pointer Sisters, and plenty of booze, is below. And Deborah’s verdict? You can read it for yourself here.

Do you have a favourite opera? In this week’s Spectator, Simon Courtauld declares his love for Verdi’s Don Carlos. It’s not about the structure, or the production, or all the little things that opera critics often criticise, he argues, but more about ‘the glorious music and the drama of the royal court in 16th century Spain. The seventh set of performances of Nicholas Hytner’s production (which Courtauld describes as ‘a treat’) returns to the Royal Opera House this weekend, and here’s the trailer they produced for it:

From one classical music form to another; Michael Henderson has

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