Adam Spreadbury-Maher and David Eaton talk to Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 10/03/2020It was a sheer coincidence that the person seated next to me at the Trafalgar Studios 2 was no other...
Alistair Beaton talks with Mel Cooper Mel Cooper 20/02/2020Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin (Jeder stirbt fuer sich allein was the original German title) was, perhaps, the first novel...
Roberto Abbado in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 21/01/2020At the Monaco Opera House, the 2019 season opens with Donizetti’s opera ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, known as a tragic drama...
Jean-Louis Grinda in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 19/01/2020Jean-Louis Grinda is the director of the Opera House in Monte Carlo. His boss is Caroline, Princess of Hanover, he...
Reviewer's Rating Touching the Void Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2019This year is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Joe Simpson’s remarkable memoir, Touching the Void, later made into...
Olga Peretyatko in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 28/10/2019Olga Peretyatko’s debut performance as Norina in the current performance of Donizetti’s comic masterpiece, Don Pasquale, at the Royal Opera...
Natasha Kafka in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 19/10/2019At the age of just 25, Natasha Kafka is performing at the Royal Opera House at the Linbury Theatre in...
Agata Siwiak and Joanna Wichowska in conversation with Emma Burnell Close Strangers Festival 2019 Emma Burnell 15/09/2019I meet Agata Siwiak in the glamorous downstairs bar and cabaret space at Teatr Polski in Poznan. It is the...
Alona Szostak in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Gdansk Shakespeare Festival 2019 Rivka Jacobson 24/08/2019On the morning of 1st of August 2019, at the friendly Dom Muzyka hotel in Gdansk, while having coffee and...
Rodula Gaitanou in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 12/08/2019We met after I saw her magnificent production of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) at Opera Holland...
