Review: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas; Rolfe’s Aeneas and Dido, Oct. 21, 2017
To open its 17/18 farewell season on October 21, Toronto Masque Theatre presented a double bill of...
Hamlet review – careers are made in a ferociously powerful trip to Elsinore
By: Tim Ashley for the Guardian (UK) Glyndebourne, Sussex Given its world premiere at Glyndebourne...
Written on Skin review – spare staging highlights richness of Benjamin’s opera
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge The Melos Sinfonia’s thrilling concert performance of George...
La Traviata review – McVicar’s Verdi is a gorgeous but stilted visual treat
By: Rowena Smith for the Guardian (UK) Theatre Royal, Glasgow David McVicar’s staging of La...
Lucy Worsley’s Nights at the Opera review – dressing up, singing and sex
This brilliant show flitted from Covent Garden to Venice to Vienna and Milan in pursuit of the...
The Guardian view on the ‘yellowface’ casting row: classical music has a diversity problem | Editorial
The pulling of Peter Eötvös’s opera The Golden Dragon from the Hackney Empire must provoke some...
