Robert Thicknesse

Robert Thicknesse is the Critic's opera critic

As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?

A new Austrian musical taps dark material to produce a brilliant, unsettling and darkly funny exploration of the Anschluss

On opera’s flirtation with current affairs

Jephtha, Royal Opera House

Why opera needs fictional dead women

On triggering opera and Arts Council England

Das Rheingold, Royal Opera House

Tosca, Grand Opera House, Belfast