36 stories by "Steph Power"
Notes from the House of the Dead, Dostoyevsky's semi-autobiographical account of life in a Siberian prison camp, might seem the starkest of
"Something is weighing me down." Pushkin's final words, uttered from his deathbed following a catastrophic duel, might equally apply to his eponymous
How many frequenters of Chinese restaurants bother to think about the lives of the people preparing their food? In The Golden Dragon,
Musorgsky's mighty historical epic, Khovanshchina, is eloquent in the very sprawl of its design. Left unfinished at his untimely death, the opera
Gluck's 1762 Orfeo ed Euridice offers a fascinating journey into the psychology of time " not least in that its composer looked
Premiered in 1911, Der Rosenkavalier was a remarkable stylistic volte-face by Richard Strauss, eschewing previous dissonant extremes for a sumptuous romance steeped
1870s Vienna was a city of contradictions: intoxicated yet bewildered by rapid financial enrichment, then outright destabilised by the ensuing 1873 stock
The world premiere of a new opera featuring a Welsh-language libretto is a singular event, notwithstanding Wales' reputation as the 'land of
In the modern world, the staging of opera and theatre poses an increasingly complex challenge, often requiring large teams of specialist personnel.
Nearly 40 years after it was premiered at Welsh National Opera, Joachim Herz's venerable 1978 production of Madam Butterfly still packs a
Puccini's beloved La Boheme is founded on a combination of grim reality and romantic pathos that is either glorious or problematic depending
