Beyond the Libretto: How Music Tells Women’s Stories in Opera Rivka Jacobson 03/06/2025Opera Holland Park’s 2025 season opens with Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, closes with Verdi’s La Traviata, and, in between, presents...
Reviewer's rating Letters From Max Jad Adams 03/06/2025A student applies to enrol on a playwriting workshop saying he is a poet and a comedian. The professor states...
L’elisir d’amore David Buchler 02/06/2025Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore is often treated as the operatic equivalent of a chilled Aperol spritz – light, effervescent, and perfect...
The Flying Dutchman Josi Steinfeld 02/06/2025Richard Wagner remains one of opera’s most polarising figures — a revolutionary composer with a tumultuous personal life. Known for...
Manon Olivia Hurton 31/05/2025The Opéra Bastille is a late postmodern strongbox for storytelling. Behind its brutalist façade of glass and exposed concrete lies...
Reviewers Rating The Frogs Julie Peakman 30/05/2025This is a comedy so funny it has lasted more than two thousand years. Aristophanes wrote the original in 405BC...
1536 Wilder Gutterson 28/05/2025Set in the year of the trial and beheading of Anne Boleyn, 1536 by Ava Pickett takes place not within...
Il Barbiere di Siviglia Miho Uchida 26/05/2025Josef E. Köpplinger’s lively and imaginative production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia returns to the New National Theatre Tokyo...
Outpatient Tim Hochstrasser 25/05/2025This play had a successful first run in Edinburgh and has made several appearances since. It now comes to London...
Shucked Anna Levitt-Malik. 23/05/2025A new musical has cropped up at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and I’m all shucked up about it! On...
