Landing solo at this festival hundreds of kilometres from the nearest major city should be intimidating. But there’s too much ...

There’s really only one antidote to sultry summer days: well-crafted ice cream, sorbet or gelato, eaten somewhere ...

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Jenůfa is playing at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden until 1 Febuary. Box office: rbo.org.uk or 020 7304 4000 ...

At the Royal Ballet and Opera, the issue is doubled. Gone are the pyramids and Tutankamun call-backs and in comes sets (by ...

Reece Clarke, the principal dancer at the Royal Ballet and Opera, played the role of the devilishly handsome Onegin on ...

The Royal Opera ©2024 Tristram Kenton I was disappointed ... Moths and beetles climb the walls of the opera house proscenium. The Witch’s house, usually a kind of elaborate peasant hut with ...

Cranko took the predictable love melodrama - I want you, I don't, actually I do, well now I don’t - and turned it into a full ...

No opera composer has ever rivalled Leos Janacek in his ability to put colloquial language on the musical stage. “I secretly listened to the speech of passers-by,” this Moravian composer wrote of the ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

the impact he gets from the house orchestra is seared on the memory. The composer's first great score has its problems in a not always clear orchestration – later he went for extremes, which pose ...

It is more than two years since the Royal Opera announced the appointment of Jakub Hrůša as its next music director, succeeding Antonio Pappano after his record-breaking 22 years in the post.