American Psycho Olivia Hurton 04/02/2026 590Rupert Goold’s thirteen-year tenure as artistic director of the Almeida Theatre in Islington has seen it transform into a leading...
Mozart’s Requiem: Listening Back to Da Ponte’s Lost World Rivka Jacobson 31/01/2026 2852During the Barbican performance of Mozart’s Requiem, there was a moment — brief and unanticipated — when the music unsettled...
Bigre/’FishBowl’ Tim Hochstrasser 30/01/2026 716The test of a great mime show is not that you don’t need the words but rather when you realise...
Aida Nicole Pezza 29/01/2026 1384Aida is one of those operas that must elicit an immediate ‘wow’ effect; a good production is one that delivers...
Eugene Onegin Olivia Hurton 29/01/2026 1517When Tchaikovsky set himself the task of adapting Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin into an opera, he had clear ideas...
Die Walküre Josi Steinfeld 29/01/2026 1306In 2025, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Royal Opera and Ballet each launched new Ring cycles with Das Rheingold....
Cosi fan Tutte Tim Hochstrasser 27/01/2026 851Of all three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte this opera is perhaps the most tricky to bring off successfully...
Tell Me Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2026 784When I am in Tate Modern I often stand in front of a painting by Mondrian and experiment with my...
Reviewer's rating Beautiful Little Fool Jad Adams 25/01/2026 728The scene is set with an archive with walls of books, papers, boxes and table lamps. Here Scottie Fitzgerald, daughter...
Ermonela Jaho in Conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 23/01/2026 2522Voice, silence, and the ethics of listening The internationally acclaimed soprano reflects on voice, silence, and how lived experience reshapes...
