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Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Igor Toronyi-Lalic

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Classical music / The rise of cringe

Classical music /					 													 						The rise of cringe
14.08.2025 9

The Spectator

Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Igor Levit’s 12-hour performance of Satie’s Vexations was far too short

03.05.2025 3

The Spectator

Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Cinema / In praise of one of cinema’s greatest trolls

The most important thing to know about the filmmaker and writer Marguerite Duras is that she was a total drunk. ‘I became an alcoholic as soon as I...

29.08.2024 1

The Spectator

Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Children have the Proms. Grown-ups head to Salzburg. Snob summer

Salzburg Festival doesn’t mess about. The offerings this year include an adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain in Lithuanian, a Soviet-era...

08.08.2024 1

The Spectator

Igor Toronyi-Lalic