Pulp Puccini
Having the hots for Tosca
Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
Pity and terror
A powerful, moving adaptation of Puccini
Verdi shines, despite everything
A gloomy production of a glittering opera
Music to die for
The elegant narrative solution of suicide has had no greater cheerleader than opera
Ethics men
Opera directors are utilising programme books to purvey their moral and ethical wisdom
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Let’s appreciate Wagner for Wagner
Politics and historical commentary aside, Lohengrin is currently on at Covent Garden
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
