Opera
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…
Pole apart
Alas, poor André Tchaikowsky. A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, with an assumed name that probably did his musical career…
Pole apart
Alas, poor André Tchaikowsky. A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, with an assumed name that probably did his musical career…
Super Norma
The Royal Opera has opened the season with a triumph, and in one of the most difficult of operas, Bellini’s…
Super Norma
The Royal Opera has opened the season with a triumph, and in one of the most difficult of operas, Bellini’s…
Super Norma
The Royal Opera has opened the season with a triumph, and in one of the most difficult of operas, Bellini’s…
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…
My idea of fun
We don’t really do operetta in Britain these days — and at this stage in the game, I don’t really…
My idea of fun
We don’t really do operetta in Britain these days — and at this stage in the game, I don’t really…
My idea of fun
We don’t really do operetta in Britain these days — and at this stage in the game, I don’t really…
What’s love got to do with it?
Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades is probably his greatest opera, certainly the one in which his characteristic strengths are on…
What’s love got to do with it?
Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades is probably his greatest opera, certainly the one in which his characteristic strengths are on…
What’s love got to do with it?
Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades is probably his greatest opera, certainly the one in which his characteristic strengths are on…
Dorset’s winning formula
Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…
Dorset’s winning formula
Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…
Dorset’s winning formula
Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…
Snakes and ladders
In Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film, the ‘exterminating angel’ of the title is a mystery illness. A debilitating virus — much…
Snakes and ladders
In Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film, the ‘exterminating angel’ of the title is a mystery illness. A debilitating virus — much…
Snakes and ladders
In Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film, the ‘exterminating angel’ of the title is a mystery illness. A debilitating virus — much…
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…
