Heywood Civic Centre, Rochdale; Grange festival, Hampshire; Royal Opera House, London An audience of under-twos is captivated by Scottish Opera’s latest new work – and so, for many reasons, is our ...

One of the few positives that has come out of the pandemic is that there has never been more opportunity to experience something new. Theatre, ballet and opera companies have quickly realised that ...

Baritone Neil Reimer and soprano Amy Skeggles named their cat Despina, after a character in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte.Darren Stone, Times Colonist The land of limbo - that space between intensive ...

For the uninitiated, an evening at the opera may sound more like a chore than a fun-filled night of entertainment. But opera has a rich, centuries-old history and can be a culturally rewarding ...

An aura of fear and prejudice circulates toxically around the idea of opera. It can seem to be ensconced smugly at the top of the tree of cultural activities – expensive, exclusive and encoded, hedged ...

Ah, the opera. Ladies in magnificently bedazzled gowns. Men in top hats and tails. A scene straight from Wharton's "Age of Innocence." You're curious about the opera, but afraid it's too rich for your ...

Over 250 years after Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice presented opera in a new way, an acrobatic staging aims to do the same. Iestyn Davies, whose Orpheus will be amid the tumblers, dancers and acrobats, ...

I'm not, however, a complete lost cause. Thanks to a clutch of oh-so-benevolent friends, which include music critics, drum and base DJs, folk singer/songwriters, classical choristers and such, I've ...

Photo by Christine BrandeSo you want a gateway opera—somethingwith a plot thick enough to keep your head up during the shrieking and no female Wagnerians in pointed bras vaulting up and down the scale ...