Danish film Festen inspires a new masterpiece at the Royal Opera House that packs family secrets, abuse and racism into a ...

So the Royal Opera had assembled a dream cast, conductor (Edward Gardner) and director (Richard Jones). The only question ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage's production is characteristically bold, but operatic grandeur doesn't lend itself to the Danish ...

Happy Families… A new opera by English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is always a cause for excitement amongst the critical ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall’s adaptation at the Royal Opera is even more emotionally lacerating than the 1998 original ...

So an opera version of his first Dogme 95 Festen should be a contradiction in terms? From an Oedipus in East London to a ...

So this is what opera can be today. Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has never flinched from choosing challenging subjects, ever ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s taboo-busting 1998 film Festen (The Celebration) centred around a 60th birthday party at which the ...

Leading director Richard Jones on opera’s identity crisis, working with Mike Yarwood and his ‘thrilling and audacious’ new ...

The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.

Hollywood legend Robert De Niro explains why he's starring in his first ever TV series Zero Day, where he plays a former US President out to find the culprits behind a deadly cyber-attack on America.

No laughing matter, it nonetheless has elements of grim humour that director Richard Jones will doubtless deliver in his ...