Recorded just prior to lockdown and largely unedited, conductor Antonio Pappano introduces a new production of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio,…
‘I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream’. Most people will know the song from Disney’s ‘Sleeping…
Everybody knows the tale of Faust although Gounod’s popular five-act, Parisian grand opera from 1859 is in fact adapted from…
This reviewer will start this review by admitting that she is old enough to remember Pete and Dud in later…
Director Michael Longhurst’s 2016 production of Peter Shaffer’s iconic play is a stunning piece of theatre starring Lucian Msamati as…
I have a confession to make. Before today I had never watched a ballet in full. Sure, I had seen…
Terence Rattigan was one of the finest playwrights of his generation and over the course of many years he wrote…
By the time it was retired in 2015, the Royal Opera’s previous production of La Bohème, directed by John Copley,…
Writer Lorraine Hansberry was a remarkable woman who, despite her early death at age 34, conquered Broadway as the first…
On a deserted Old Vic stage Claire Foy and Matt Smith give us a fly on the wall insight into…