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.
'Akhnaten' is the third of Philip Glass's operas that offer portraits of historical figures significant in the fields of science (Einstein), politics ...
This fresh double-bill from Ballet Black introduces two works - 'Then or Now', which had a very brief outing ahead of the pandemic, and 'Nina: By What...
Jake Heggie's opera 'Dead Man Walking' is a bold contemporary choice for a student conservatory to make, but one that is fully justified on this showi...
'Akedah', which translates as 'binding' is the first full-length play by a writer who has now gone on to later and greater success. It now comes to Ha...
While we take Athenian tragedy as the foundation of so much of what has followed in the Western dramatic tradition, how often do we stop to think abou...
This production first saw the light of day at Bard College in 2015 and was most recently reworked at the Young Vic last year. I had the pleasure of re...
While there would doubtless be much dispute over which is Handel’s greatest opera, ‘Julius Caesar in Egypt’ can certainly lay claim to being the most ...
After the recent travails of English National Opera it is a real pleasure to be able to say that their new production of Wagner’s ‘ The Rhinegold’ is ...
This original and exquisitely written novel is a highly accomplished debut from Lucy Ashe. Lucy trained at the Royal Ballet School, so it is written f...
This new comedy comes to the Southwark Playhouse after a successful run back in the USA, but overall it is a struggle to find much merit in it, other ...
