Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese prose-poet, is still little known in the West despite the fact that his writings, in both Arabic and English, remain conti...
As the final opera this season Opera Holland Park presents the second and usually performed version of ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’. It is an exceptionally suc...
Each year Opera Holland Park includes one less well known or even forgotten work from the era of Puccini. This year’s choice, ‘Isabeau’ dates from 191...
This opera matinee has become not just a focal point for the Jette Parker Young Artists themselves at the end of their association with Royal Opera Ho...
Verdi’s last opera is a two-fold miracle – of both economy and prodigality. He started with the advantage of Boito’s superb libretto which strengthen...
Three brothers, in three acts, and spread over three generations: this is the pattern for Ben Power’s adaptation of Stefano Massini’s sprawling accoun...
Britten’s The Turn of the Screw was premiered as long ago as 1954, his first project after the relative failure of his coronation opera ‘Gloriana’. Bu...
The relationship between text and dance is at once both tense and potentially rewarding to each. Dance can illustrate or enhance a verbal narrative, b...
As a primarily non-verbal creative medium dance is always a challenge to the reviewer trying to find suitable words that are evocative rather than pre...
A really fine performance of this opera is very rare: often productions veer too much in the direction of cheap farce on the one hand or brittle cynic...
