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 play should come as a real revelation to both the critic and the regular London theatregoer. We all think we know ‘Romeo and Juliet’ through and ...
If you are seeking something different from the razzmatazz and glitz of the Platinum Jubilee then this charming, understated, but the richly rewarding...
Tchaikovsky very much wanted to write opera for adults about real characters, avoiding implausible operatic devices and melodramatic conceits. In ‘Eug...
Inaugurated in 2007, and back after a two-year break, this competition now attracts entries from over 300 singers, 12 of whom get to sing a song of So...
For most musicians the last few years have been a bleak experience of lost work, a maze of paperwork before travel is possible, and the fundamental lo...
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 ...
