Review: Lessons in Love and Violence, The Royal Opera House
“It’s nothing to do with loving a man, it’s love full stop that’s poison”. This is the opening line of Lessons in Love and Violence, a new opera by George Benja...
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Review: Coraline, Barbican
Coraline fast became a cult classic when Neil Gaiman’s children’s novella was first published in 2002. There has since been the award-winning stop-motion film a...
Review: Macbeth, Royal Opera House
According to Operabase, Verdi’s Macbeth is the 29th most performed opera, ranking higher than Cavalleria Rusticana and Salome. Perhaps with the intention of hel...
Review: La Traviata, ENO
There are many things that dazzle in Daniel Kramer’s new production of La Traviata: shiny excess, costumes from many different eras and cultures, even a ball pi...
Review: From The House Of The Dead, Royal Opera House
Leoš Janáček’s final opera never promised to be easy listening; based on Dostoevsky’s novel set in a Siberian gulag, the piece might be difficult to digest at f...
Review: Sex Worker’s Opera, Ovalhouse
Opera and musical theatre have historically not been very kind in their representation of certain demographics: BME people, for example, barely figure in what w...