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A Delightfully Vaudeville Update Of Cosi Fan Tutte
ENO Cosi fan Tutte: Kate Valentine, Randall Bills, Marcus Farnsworth, Christine Rice and Sally Reeve. Image: ENO/Mike Hoban English National Opera has been taking some creative risks with its...
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London Life Inspires Contemporary Opera Maestro Toni Castells
Opera is not all about the fat ladies, it turns out. At the Kings Place cultural performance venue in Kings Cross this summer, Toni Castells will lay out his Life from Light project with an aim to...
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What’s On Stage In London: June 2014
Welcome to June’s edition of our What’s On Stage In London series, where we look at the month ahead to give you our pick of new openings. Organised by (very general) category and opening date, we hope...
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How To Get Into Opera For The First Time
An example of just how innovative opera can be. Terry Gilliam’s production of Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust for English National Opera © Tristram Kenton To many Londoners, opera remains something of...
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London Music Festival Guide 2014
Image from Treesiepopsicles via Flickr. Time to take a look at the best music festivals dished up to us this summer. For the sake of sanity, we will attempt to balance the ones you’re likely to get...
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The Opera With The Protagonist Who’s A Very Naughty Boy
Visually powerful: Terry Gilliam’s production of Benvenuto Cellini © Richard Hubert Smith If you’ve missed out on tickets to Monty Python Live at the O2 in July there is another way to experience the...
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Opera Stars Gather For George Harewood At ENO
Opera lovers can look forward to a night of special performances at the Coliseum in honour of the life of George Harewood, the chairman who oversaw a golden period in the history of the English...
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Verbal Fireworks In Klook’s Last Stand
Ako Mitchell (Klook) and Sheila Atim (Vinette). Photo by Arnim Friess. The true art of theatre is taking the bare minimum — two actors and two chairs for example — and making that simplicity feel about...
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English National Opera’s The Pearl Fishers Proves A Real Gem
Sophie Bevan as Leïla, the priestess who steals the hearts of both Zurga and Nadir © Alastair Muir Carmen aside, The Pearl Fishers is French composer Georges Bizet’s most famous opera, and the reasons...
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What’s On Stage In London: July 2014
Welcome to July’s edition of our What’s On Stage In London series, where we look at the month ahead to give you our pick of new openings. Organised by (very general) category and opening date, we hope...
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Cutting Edge Film Opera To Have UK Premiere At The Coliseum
Not your average night at the opera: Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament © Hugo Glendinning Live satellite screenings, whereby you go to the cinema to see an opera, are becoming very popular. On 29 and...
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Regress To Childhood: See Alice’s Adventures In Opera
Opera for 21st century children? That could be quite a challenge on the face of it: how can an opera get children’s attention for an hour, without boring them? We need to give credit to Will Todd, the...
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What’s On Stage In London: August 2014
Welcome to August’s edition of our What’s On Stage In London series, where we look at the month ahead to give you our pick of new openings. Organised by (very general) category and opening date, we...
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This Year’s Camden Fringe Is Bigger Than Ever
If the Edinburgh Festival feels like it’s getting increasingly mainstream, why not stay in London and see the alternative to the alternative? The Camden Fringe — now in its ninth year — runs from 28...
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Porgy And Bess, Outdoors In The Summertime
Nicola Hughes as Bess. Photo by Hugo Glendinning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is like no other venue in London. Hidden by large trees, it’s the kind of place you’d only find if you were actively...
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The Immortal Hour: Operatic Rarity In An Intimate Setting
Rutland Boughton’s The Immortal Hour enjoys an intimate yet imaginative staging at the Finborough Theatre © Bethany Wells Don’t worry if you have never even heard of an opera called The Immortal Hour....
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Chamber Of Delights: OperaUpClose, La Traviata, Soho Theatre
Formed five years ago to present a small-but-perfectly formed La Bohème in a room above a Kilburn pub, OperaUpClose has gone on to have great success with pared-down versions of Carmen, Tosca and Don...
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What’s On Stage In London: September 2014
Welcome to September’s edition of our What’s On Stage In London series, where we look at the month ahead to give you our pick of new openings. Organised by (very general) category and opening date, we...
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Handel Opera Will Transport You To Georgian Britain
Rhian Lois’ Atalanta loves Andrew Watts’ Arsamenes, but his heart is reserved for Romilda © Mike Hoban Ever wanted to be an eighteenth century aristocrat, taking a stroll in the pleasure gardens,...
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A Cursed Marriage: ENO’s Otello
Shakespeare’s Othello is the classic tragedy of the outsider, a story of a Moorish military general so insecure about his position in European society that he is easily manipulated into believing his...
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