Opera

In this case, McVicar succeeds in making an utterly far-fetched and bizarre plot attractive, which has sometimes justified productions in which the characters have…

Again war, again suffering, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for : again fraud, again the stupefaction and  brutalization of man. Lev Tolstoy, 1904   This quotation from Tolstoy…

https://youtu.be/ReOau8_zfRY William Shakespeare's play provided opera with sufficiently powerful literary and dramaturgical material to inspire the Romantic generation with powerful masterpieces, from Bellini to Gounod…

For this production, the famous largest curtain in the world is replaced by a transparent canvas on which faces and perspectives in warm colours…

Stravinsky long dithered around the opera genre, using reduced and composite forms in which musical theatre met oratorio – with the spoken and sung…

"Dreaming does not preclude thinking", says Mariame Clément in an interview about her production of Massenet's Cendrillon for the Paris Opera. One would like…

Turandot, it goes without saying in view of the popularity and diffusion it has achieved, is the last of the operas written by Puccini;…

All this can be learned by reading the house programme published for the new production, a small volume on which we would like some…