Agrippina
Rid of their enemies, the Caesars set about murdering family and friends
According to Francis Bacon, the House of York was ‘a race often dipped in its own blood’. That being so,…
Startling and sublime - even the candles got a round of applause: Glyndebourne’s Saul reviewed
Caius Gabriel Cibber’s statues of ‘Melancholy’ and ‘Raving Madness’, their eyes staring blindly into the void, petrified in torment, once…
Baroque opera shows vicious people can sometimes be happy — and we're glad they are
Visits by English Touring Opera are always to be looked forward to, but this autumn it has surpassed itself with…
