Adam Spreadbury-Maher and David Eaton talk to Rivka Jacobson
It was a sheer coincidence that the person seated next to me at the Trafalgar Studios 2 was no other than Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the director of the s...
Alistair Beaton talks with Mel Cooper
Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin (Jeder stirbt fuer sich allein was the original German title) was, perhaps, the first novel to deal with the internal r...
Roberto Abbado in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
At the Monaco Opera House, the 2019 season opens with Donizetti’s opera ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, known as a tragic drama in two parts. Roberto Abbado co...
Jean-Louis Grinda in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
Jean-Louis Grinda is the director of the Opera House in Monte Carlo. His boss is Caroline, Princess of Hanover, he explains with a smile and hastens t...
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Touching the Void
This year is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Joe Simpson’s remarkable memoir, Touching the Void, later made into an equally successful...
Olga Peretyatko in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
Olga Peretyatko’s debut performance as Norina in the current performance of Donizetti’s comic masterpiece, Don Pasquale, at the Royal Opera House is a...
Natasha Kafka in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
At the age of just 25, Natasha Kafka is performing at the Royal Opera House at the Linbury Theatre in Zuberland (Magic Land) as part of the four actor...
Agata Siwiak and Joanna Wichowska in conversation with Emma Burnell
Close Strangers Festival 2019
I meet Agata Siwiak in the glamorous downstairs bar and cabaret space at Teatr Polski in Poznan. It is the second day of the festival for which she is...
Alona Szostak in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
Gdansk Shakespeare Festival 2019
On the morning of 1st of August 2019, at the friendly Dom Muzyka hotel in Gdansk, while having coffee and a chat with a talented young Armenian direct...
Rodula Gaitanou in conversation with Rivka Jacobson
Opera Holland Park 2019
Rodula was nominated for International Opera Awards Director of the Year 2019.
We met after I saw her magnificent production of Verdi’s opera ‘Un B...