This Dutchman Flies High It took me until I was in my 30s to brave a Wagner opera. Not The Flying Dutchman but Die ...

No opera composer has ever rivalled Leos Janacek in his ability to put colloquial language on the musical stage. “I secretly ...

This was always going to be Jakub Hrůša’s night, his first at the Royal Opera since performances of Wagner’s Lohengrin won ...

It’s a mistake to dismiss Claus Guth’s production of Janacek’s Jenůfa as symbolically overwrought and interminably grey. Look ...

To be allowed to oversee the piece's premiere was, he says, "a real honor and privilege". "It's performed in English, but ...