Martin Decker: DAD Rhys John Edwards 06/06/2025‘Martin Decker: DAD’ is the culmination of a story five years in the making – a journey that’s stretched from...
Fiddler on the Roof Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2025The greatest musicals, like the greatest operas, contain worlds within them that can be tapped and taken in many different...
CompañÃa Mercedes Ruiz Romancero del Baile Flamenco Hafiza Butt 05/06/2025The revelation of love is that nothing else matters—not even the capitulation of the other. To love greatly is, of...
The Mountaintop Ben Reiss 05/06/2025The Mountaintop is writer Katori Hall’s imagining of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s last night alive before his assassination. It...
The Queen of Spades Tim Hochstrasser 03/06/2025The Queen of Spades/Pique Dame (1890) is a classic case of where literature and opera part company with independently successful results....
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...
