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The director of The English Patient and The Talented Mr Ripley, Anthony Minghella directed just one opera, this Madam Butterfly for English
Aged 90, the sitar maestro Ravi Shankar announced he was going to write an opera. He died before its completion, and it
Jonathan Miller's English National Opera Mikado " which transfers the operetta's action from Japan to a British grand hotel in the 1930s
This fast-paced, hour-long triple bill at the Grimeborn Festival brings together three pieces linked by the theme of chance. Barber's nine-minute A
With music and words respectively by New Zealanders Gillian Whitehead and Fleur Adcock, Hotspur (1980) centres on Elizabeth Mortimer (1371"1417), the wife
Though 'classically' trained, Belize-born composer Errollyn Wallen has throughout her career embraced pop-music influences as a singer-songwriter. Singing at the keyboard, she
The Tete a Tete festival's mixed bills are a music-theatre party bag. There might be the odd liquorice nightmare in there, but
It is only in the past 60 years or so " since La Scala's 1957 production featuring Maria Callas in the title-role
With only a month to go before 2019, the centenary of the 1918 Armistice is marked in operatic form with this widely
A sophisticated but relatively recent theatrical genre, Jingju (Peking Opera) achieved its current form in the 19th century. It draws on many
One of the most popular of all operettas, The Merry Widow follows the attempts of Baron Zeta, the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris,
Stockhausen's seven-opera cycle Licht aside, Wagner's vast operatic tetralogy the Ring remains the most ambitious (and costly) project an opera house can
Following their first opera The Last Hotel, a chilling tale in which a couple helps a woman to commit suicide, composer Donnacha
The one thing you can be sure of with a Tete a Tete triple bill is unpredictability. And yet on this occasion
The Tete a Tete Opera Festival, running until August 18, thrives on the new and the experimental, so the 80-minute monodrama Mary's
In Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander, the 'romantic wanderer' figure takes on a supernatural element. The titular sea-captain is condemned to sail the
If Marvel's Avengers and DC's Justice League can do it, then so can opera. For its second production the enterprising company the
This is the first of two King's Head Theatre shows transferring to the West End, the company now having left its home
Seventh-century Lombardy, the setting of Handel's Rodelinda, may feel remote even by opera seria standards, but in Richard Jones' English National Opera
It's a shame, given that Rossini's comedy The Barber of Seville delivers in primary colours, that Annabel Arden's production doesn't match the
Written in 1992, Nick Hornby's million-selling semi-autobiographical first novel about a fan's obsession with Arsenal has been made into two films "
With subjects ranging from Brexit to a Mars mission, from Trump to the Berlin Wall, this year's 10th-anniversary Tete a Tete opera
Martin Duncan's 2011 production of Rossini's frothy and at times acerbic comedy makes its first return at Garsington. It's an evening that
Beethoven's message in his only opera, Fidelio, is that love and courage can counter oppression and leverage freedom. It's a testament to
Viewed by some as the most crusty of art forms, opera has occasionally tried too hard to reinvent itself, to be 'relevant',
