Robert Thicknesse

Robert Thicknesse is the Critic's opera critic

The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House

Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce

The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum

Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place

Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp

The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse

A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment

Bring back the castratos? Might as well

Andrea Chénier, Royal Opera House