41 stories by "Inge Kjemtrup"
Directors of Mozart's Don Giovanni are often seduced into seeking out a plausible explanation for the title character's unrepentant womanising. For the
It's a beautiful sunny day in Naples, but it might as well be the frozen North for two young men who have
Verdi's Aida lends itself to spectacle. Set in ancient Egypt, and with temple scenes and triumphal processions crucial to the plot, it's
Who can resist hummus, that delicious blend of chickpeas, olive oil and garlic? It's a Middle Eastern cultural touchstone and the name
Exactly why composer Andre Tchaikowsky " gay, Jewish and depressive " chose The Merchant of Venice, with its heavy-handed anti-Semitism, as the
Poulenc's one-woman opera La Voix Humaine opens with a woman, Elle, sitting alone, waiting for her lover to ring. She swings from
Garsington Opera's Le Nozze di Figaro is a glorious indulgence for the eye and ear. From the first scene to the last,
How best to mark the centenary of Puccini's La Rondine? It's an operatic misfit that began life as a frothy operetta, turned
The inspiration for Jonathan Dove's opera The Day After, being given its UK premiere by English National Opera, is the Greek myth
Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto was the runaway hit of 1792 following its first performance before Emperor Leopold II, who insisted upon an
An aircraft hangar in Liverpool, a room at an Islington pub, a warehouse in Hackney, the space below a canal bridge in
One of the themes of Puccini's masterwork, Tosca, is the powerlessness of an ordinary person who gets caught up in the machinery
When an opera is scaled down from a huge cast on a grand stage to a tiny cast in an intimate theatre
Unless they happen to get stung by one, most people give little thought to bees. Composer, performer and bee-keeper Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, however,
For anyone fed up with the Christmas season's compulsory cheeriness, Scenes from the End, a visceral exploration of loss and grieving, may
The two one-act operas presented by Shadwell Opera boast many obvious similarities: Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung and Mark Anthony Turnage's Twice Through the
