Can arias ever be the reel deal?
Most film adaptations have been pale imitations weighed down with charmless music
Opera as it should be
This, at last, is what the English National Opera is for
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
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The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Bring back borstals
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Women who play along …
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Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
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Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
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