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.
For two days only Quebecois dancer and choreographer Marie Chouinard brings her company to Sadler’s Wells for the performance of two works. Chouinard ...
Jules Massenet wrote some thirty operas and was esteemed by contemporaries as the most successful French operatic composer of the French Belle Époque....
The Wild Card season at Sadler’s Wells offers a chance for new dance groups to present their work alongside creative work by others that has stimulate...
This new opera emerges as one product of collaboration between the Royal Opera House and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, who have sponsored c...
Performances of Schubert’s late song cycle ‘A Winter’s Journey’ are usually deeply inward experiences: just the singer, a grand piano and accompanist ...
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan return to Sadler’s Wells with one of their signature works, first developed by choreographer Lin Hwai-Min in 1984, ...
If you ask most people about theatrical performances with horses I expect their first thoughts will be of the circus, or the ceremonious dressage of t...
Immortal Tango is a superlative evening at the theatre that transcends the traditional boundaries of dance spectaculars to become a truly total work o...
Guys and Dolls has been a continuous success story since its first outing in 1950, and in reviewing such an irresistible and indestructible classic it...
There is often a tension in ballet between bravura technique which dazzles the audience but becalms the story, and a focus on development of character...
