The stylised violence is extreme but revealing in Independent Opera’s haunting production of a bitter meditation on tyranny Given its UK premiere by Independent Opera, Simplicius Simplicissimus is the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Would anyone care about Simplicius Simplicissimus if it had been written 10 years later? Hard to say.

Hans Grimmelshausen’s Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus, first published in 1668, is one of the great picaresque novels. Like Cervantes and Hašek, Grimmelshausen invented a naive, feckless hero ...

00:01, Sun, Nov 20, 2016 Updated: 12:04, Tue, Dec 13, 2016 Like many anti-Nazis who decided not to emigrate in the 1930s, the composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann had to play a double game. As a protest he ...