Opera Holland Park has not gone into its winter hibernation by any means. They are currently streaming a production of William Walton’s little-known a...
Mozart's masterpiece, the Marriage of Figaro, is a work of such musical beauty and comic invention that it can always be counted on to charm an audien...
Mozart's "The Magic Flute" offers its own challenges. Along with some of the most beautiful music ever composed, there are also quite a few spoken dia...
With ‘Six’ and ‘The Mirror and the Light’ running in the West End it is clear that our appetite the Tudors continues unabated; but this is an obsessio...
Madam Butterfly is one of the most performed operas today and yet one of the most difficult to stage in a way that feels right to modern audiences. It...
In this stupendous revival of Richard Eyre's 1994 production of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, the 27 years old set design by Bob Crowley, stil...
It is 1987 and the Soviet Union is not long for this world. Neither – it turns out – were Graham Greene and Kim Philby, the latter dying a year later ...
Jenůfa (1904) is Janáček’s first mature opera, but still underperformed in comparison with the five masterpieces that follow it. Though there are stil...
This year’s Grimeborn festival came to an end on Sunday with an uplifting survey of the career and work of Astor Piazzolla from the new four-person co...
