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...
Once Ziyu Zhang 29/05/2026Enda Walsh once described Girl as the “driving force” of Once and the one who “would change everything”. That is...
Un Turco in Italia Josi Steinfeld 27/05/2026European opera from the 17th through 19th centuries frequently exploited fascination with — and anxiety about — the Ottoman Empire....
The Name Hafiza Butt 23/05/2026There is a reason why Simon Usher is one of our finest stage directors, and it’s not just his intelligence,...
Dido & Aeneas Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2026In his excellent programme note Michael Burden points out that we know very little about the origins and performance circumstances...
Un Ballo in Maschera Josi Steinfeld 21/05/2026In 1857, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples commissioned Giuseppe Verdi to compose a new opera. He chose Un Ballo...
Sherlock Holmes Sara Tiron 19/05/2026At Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Sherlock Holmes transforms detective fiction into something vividly alive. Written by Joel Horwood and...
1536 Olivia Hurton 14/05/2026Who, as a child, did not skip around the playground after history lessons chanting, ‘Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’?...
Noughts and Crosses Sara Tiron 14/05/2026At Hackney Empire, a theatre whose setting makes questions of race, class, and belonging feel immediate rather than abstract, Pilot...
The Marriage of Figaro Ziyu Zhang 12/05/2026Accessibility is the defining ambition of the revival of Sir Thomas Allen’s production of The Marriage of Figaro. The English-language...
