Emile

New YorkCarmen Hot on the heels of La Scala's sexed-up version of Bizet's best-known opera, Richard Eyre brings his new staging of Carmen to the Met on New Year's Eve. Elina Garanca sings Carmen - "opera's ultimate bad girl", as the Met puts it - for the first time at the venue after the production's original star, Angela Gheorghiu, pulled out of the first six performances (she was to sing opposite her estranged husband Roberto Alagna as Don José). Read More

When Welsh rugby hero Gareth Thomas "came out" last week, many could not believe this was happening in something as macho as rugby. Read More