Review: Marnie, London Coliseum
Nico Muhly is back at the Coliseum with the world premiere of a new opera, following 2011’s Two Boys. Based on Winston Graham’s novel – and dramatised by Hitchc...
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Review: Giulio Cesare, Hackney Empire
Unfamiliar as I am to opera, I was moved by the power it has to communicate without (English) words, but through music, voice and expression. Handel's Giulio Ce...
Blog: Women in Opera – Is it all skimpy nighties or what?
I recently dreamt that I was being interviewed about my work as a composer of contemporary opera. Nothing unusual, only that this time I was asked a single ques...