Staging trauma: the culture of fear in opera
Many operas hold traumatic themes, but how does this affect the singers on stage? Rosie Middleton investigates the staging of opera with intimate and traumatic scenes and the wider culture around...
Many operas hold traumatic themes, but how does this affect the singers on stage? Rosie Middleton investigates the staging of opera with intimate and traumatic scenes and the wider culture around...
As Wexford Festival Opera prepares to stage Stanford’s English satire The Critic, we explore the work’s history and its place in the composer’s operatic output
Looking back on 10 key operatic moments in 100 years since Puccini’s death
‘My wish is that folk feel empowered to use their voice as an extension of their authentic self, and to revel in the small magic that makes them, and their voice, unique’
Nadine Sierra: redefining the modern diva | Huw Montague Rendall: the young baritone on his debut album
This September, soprano Nadine Sierra returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, nearly a decade after her debut in the role. She speaks about her early life, frustrations with...
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Serebrennikov conducts a controversial history lesson in Vienna
The Buckinghamshire-based festival presents Pergolesi’s dramma per musica in a newly-created English script
Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music Laurence Cummings looks back on the history of French Baroque opera and considers why it is so neglected in the UK
The traditional operatic canon can still profoundly speak to us today
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