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Blogs - Antony Craig

Celebrating film music out of context

It’s tricky to find the right formula

Jonathan Miller’s Mikado still sparkles after 26 years

ENO’s very English comedy with new victims on the little list

Carmen and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim share the limelight

ENO’s latest productions are both challenging and meaningful

The Yellow Sofa takes Glyndebourne to Covent Garden

Intimate romp gives a novel fillip to the autumn tour

Delius’s forgotten opera takes glorious centre stage at Wexford Festival

Bravura performance from Jessica Muirhead helps make A Village Romeo and Juliet an operatic highlight of the year

‘Big band’ Broadway Prom sets a questionable precedent

The glorious John Wilson sound marred by unsubtle amplification of singers

Zerlina holds sway as young professionals tackle Don Giovanni

Mozart with attitude as Da Ponte is updated to 2012

Proms go from the sublime to the ridiculous

And sometimes ridiculous can be even more fun than sublime

Grim fairy tale at Tête à Tête opera festival

Exploring the darker side of Rumpelstiltskin

Berlioz interrupts Beethoven and Boulez

Curious programming choices at the Proms