Notes on a scandal
Kids: who’d have them? Certainly no one who has ever been to the opera. If they’re not murdering you, they’re…
Notes on a scandal
Kids: who’d have them? Certainly no one who has ever been to the opera. If they’re not murdering you, they’re…
Notes on a scandal
Kids: who’d have them? Certainly no one who has ever been to the opera. If they’re not murdering you, they’re…
All’s well that ends well
The last ten minutes of any Don Giovanni tell you more about a director than the previous two hours. Mozart’s…
All’s well that ends well
The last ten minutes of any Don Giovanni tell you more about a director than the previous two hours. Mozart’s…
All’s well that ends well
The last ten minutes of any Don Giovanni tell you more about a director than the previous two hours. Mozart’s…
Buried treasure
Wexford is to opera-goers what casinos are to gamblers. The uncertainty, the hope, the exhilaration — they’re all a crucial…
Buried treasure
Wexford is to opera-goers what casinos are to gamblers. The uncertainty, the hope, the exhilaration — they’re all a crucial…
Buried treasure
Wexford is to opera-goers what casinos are to gamblers. The uncertainty, the hope, the exhilaration — they’re all a crucial…
High and low
‘Besides feeble writing, there is a mixture of tragic-comedy and buffoonery in it, which Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio had banished…
High and low
‘Besides feeble writing, there is a mixture of tragic-comedy and buffoonery in it, which Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio had banished…
High and low
‘Besides feeble writing, there is a mixture of tragic-comedy and buffoonery in it, which Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio had banished…
Losing heart
The subtitle for Mozart’s Così fan tutte may be ‘The School For Lovers’, but it’s as a school for directors…
Losing heart
The subtitle for Mozart’s Così fan tutte may be ‘The School For Lovers’, but it’s as a school for directors…
Losing heart
The subtitle for Mozart’s Così fan tutte may be ‘The School For Lovers’, but it’s as a school for directors…
Saintly sins
They say that the devil gets all the best tunes, and on the basis of this week’s opera-going it would…
Saintly sins
They say that the devil gets all the best tunes, and on the basis of this week’s opera-going it would…
Saintly sins
They say that the devil gets all the best tunes, and on the basis of this week’s opera-going it would…
French connection
It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…
French connection
It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…
French connection
It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…
Fifty shades of grey
Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…
Fifty shades of grey
Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…
Fifty shades of grey
Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…
Light and shade
Comedy and tragedy sit close beside one another in Mozart’s operas. Whether it’s the grinning horror of the Così finale…
