Jasper Rees
Bio
Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Telegraph and the Spectator. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. His latest book is a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins
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Disney 100 - The Concert, OVO Hydro, Glasgow review - a slic...
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Album: Dream Wife - Social Lubrication
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Mad About the Boy review - entertaining cradle-to-grave Noel...
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Re-Member Me, Hampstead Theatre review - wittily staged but...
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Album: Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You
This is a slight album in terms of length (under half an hour) but not in emotional insight. It’s absolutely...
Amanda review - too-intense Gen Z-er seeks a friend, boyfrie...
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Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park review - Verdi's Duke get...
“I am a poor student,” the Duke tells a smitten Gilda, in music that can barely keep a straight face, so plush is its melody, so oozing with...
Jerusalem Quartet, Wigmore Hall review - singing to make the...
Conversation just before this concert started concerned Verdi’s Il trovatore and the truism that it needs “the four greatest voices in...
Requiem, Opera North review - partnership and diversity
Innovation is always a risky business. Opera North’s...