Music, led to mutual international renown. And, it was the story of their repute and rivalry which actress Lindsay Duncan recounted with telling dry wit at St John’s Smith Square, through excerpts ...

Like a hallucinogenic sugar cube, this Medici Arts DVD of Hans Werner Henze’s *Der junge Lord*, with libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann, will take viewers on a wild ride and really put it to the system.

the final phase of his operatic career. Here, finally, he found his true ...

The highlight of BWV 56 is, for me, the aria ‘Endlich, endlich wird ...

Moreover, the conductor is a good ëroutinierí and thatís all that can be said. Nowadays one doesnít accept anymore the truncated versions of yore with almost half an hour of music missing. Still as a ...

lacklustre opening certainly wasn’t a case of ‘aging’. Eyre’s production may be 25-years-old but it’s still handsome in conception and design, Bob Crowley’s sets sculpting gracious spaces.

Music composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858-1919). Libretto by the composer based on a ...

The opera was given its premiere in Dresden on 29 May 1901, and a measure of its success resides in the fact that it was given its New York premiere just a year later in 1902. Fully in line with the ...

appears at the end of performances and is deservedly applauded, for she symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, values we all want to believe in. This gives The Passenger such potent extra-musical ...

Based on the play by Albert Camus, it’s a study of human emotion in extreme situations, expressed in vividly dramatic music. The opera starts and ends with a scream”, says director Benedict Andrews.

Your reviewer will resist the urge to consider this an attempt to get a few more sales out of a *La Traviata* that may not stand up so well in comparison to the many ...

or as completely beyond the bounds of civil etiquette.