Teetering between cruelty and comedy, director Damiano Michieletto brings a new production of Don Pasquale to the ROH, after its successful runs in Pa...
Gluck’s contribution to the development of opera is still under-appreciated, straddling as he does the transition between the Baroque and Classical er...
Let me start by saying that the new production of Shakespeare’s too-infrequently produced play, King John, is entertaining, moving, engaging, utterly ...
Of all the German composers in the 18th Century, Music by Handel epitomises the most European-ness; written in just 21 days, Agrippina was his first m...
I’ve been to theatres in pubs before. Pub theatres are quite common, after all. But I’ve never seen a theatre converted into a pub before. This has ha...
The Welsh are coming! After a Don Pasquale set in Cardiff around a kebab van, we now have an Elisir set in a café in Barry - admittedly it is run by I...
There is something truly magical about Emma Rice’s production of Malory Towers. Malory Towers is an adaptation of the series of six Malory Towers nove...
On their way to become two of music's most beloved songwriters, Lennon and McCartney spend a rollicking, rocking night stranded in a bland, blonde h...
Grab your walking shoes and ditch your large bags, folks - this show requires your hands free to hold a candle, applaud, and perhaps wipe some stray t...
