The Story Olivia Hurton 06/09/2026Today the news is drama. Newspapers have taken to social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram to dispense stories via...
Frankenstein Richard Voyce 29/08/2026Frankenstein It’s a sad fact of life that, even though I’m writing up this review of the BYMT’s Frankenstein on...
L’Occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes a Thief) Josi Steinfeld 24/08/2026L’Occasione fa il ladro is the fourth of five one-act operas the 20-year-old Rossini composed for Venice in 1812, hurriedly...
La Scala Di Seta (The Silken Ladder) Josi Steinfeld 23/08/2026Rossini was 20 when La scala di seta premiered in 1812 — a remarkable year in which he composed five...
The Singer Ziyu Zhang 14/08/2026The Singer opens up a thrilling new perspective on what a singer is, and on how a song can be...
Dido and Aeneas Owen Davies 13/08/2026Dido and Aeneas is Purcell’s only opera. Others, like King Arthur and The Fairy-Queen, though musically superb, are appropriately labelled...
Aida Alina Bottez 08/08/2026Aida, Arena di Verona: A dazzling crystal vision Verdi’s Aida was commissioned for Egypt in connection with the opening of...
Twelfth Night on Kew Soyoon Koo 03/08/2026Twelfth Night has always occupied an uneasy place in Shakespeare’s performance history, remembered widely as a festive comedy, yet its...
Flop! Richard Voyce 22/07/2026Flop! The Best Songs from the Worst Musicals does exactly what it says on the tin. What the title doesn’t...
Ariadne auf Naxos Tim Hochstrasser 21/07/2026Sitting between Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten, this opera partakes of both – a glamorous Viennese salon setting for...
