Celebrating Sinatra Tim Hochstrasser 08/06/2026John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London have become well-known for their immaculate performances of Hollywood Classics and excerpts from...
Don Carlo Tim Hochstrasser 08/06/2026Don Carlo exists in more versions than any other Verdi opera, an indication both of the trouble it caused him...
Mass Wilder Gutterson 07/06/2026The title of Fran Kranz’s explosive and powerful play Mass will undoubtedly conjure images of a church service or a...
Orlando Josi Steinfeld 06/06/2026Handel’s Orlando, inspired by Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, centres on a heroic knight driven to destructive jealousy. Orlando loves Angelica, Queen...
Krishna Sara Tiron 06/06/2026In the English countryside, Grange Park Opera turns a performance into a wider summer ritual. Arrival through the grounds, the...
High Society Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2026It is not uniformly the case that every play or film should or needs to be a musical, but when...
Reviewers Rating You’ve Gone Quiet Julie Peakman 05/06/2026There is a joke from the 1970s that runs ‘When God created people She put in a joke: She created...
La Traviata Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur Josi Steinfeld 02/06/2026La Traviata is one of the world’s most popular operas. Violetta, a courtesan, falls in love with her admirer Alfredo....
La Traviata Garsington Opera Festival Rivka Jacobson 02/06/2026Verdi’s La Traviata remains one of opera’s most moving explorations of love, sacrifice and mortality. In this Garsington production, director...
Werther Miho Uchida 01/06/2026Massenet’s Werther tells the tale of an unrealised love between a young couple, Werther and Charlotte. The opera opens with...
