Robert Thicknesse

Robert Thicknesse is the Critic's opera critic

A fun but difficult production of Il Trovatore

Fun with fear and failure

Horrors wrestled into being

April in London has a number of operatic things that look kind of fun

Recalling a thrilling collaboration between the poet and a group of oddball musicians

In true bel canto, the only important thing is the voice, the song

The Rhinegold, English National Opera, Coliseum

Opera North and English Touring Opera have plied an honourable trade without trying to gain kudos

Children are always unwelcome in Opera, except in The Magic Flute