On Opera
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
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
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
Gelding: the pros
Bring back the castratos? Might as well
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
