Tim Hochstrasser is a historian teaching early modern intellectual and cultural history at the LSE. He has a long-standing commitment to the visual, musical and dramatic arts, and opera above all, as a unifying and inspiring vehicle for all of them.
This classic musical has received so many outings the first question to pose is why make another? This production, originating at Bard College and the...
Ivo van Hove is touring with his company Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, and comes to the Barbican for a brief residency. ‘The Age of Rage’ is simil...
Emlyn Williams is an unjustly neglected figure in the history of British theatre. As a writer and actor (on stage and screen) he made major contributi...
‘Lohengrin’ was Wagner’s first clear masterpiece, but it is all the same an uneasy work, embodying both the culmination of one tradition of operatic w...
‘Pilgrims’ dates from 2016 and has had performances at several venues around the country. It is well suited as a play for final-year students in that ...
Since its first performance in 1945, ‘Peter Grimes’ has never left the repertory and its status as a masterpiece of twentieth-century opera has never ...
‘Strange Fish Theatre’ perform a very valuable role in bringing to the UK the best of Irish playwrighting, whether classic or more recent. Their last ...
Maria Friedman closely collaborated with three composers who have died in recent years – Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand and Stephen Sondheim. This lo...
There are obvious attractions behind offering a double-bill for the Spring opera slot at the Guildhall: a variety of mood and the fullest spectrum of ...
‘Proud’ is adapted by Bren Gosling from his novel depicting the interactions between three characters in contemporary London. Roland is in his forties...
