On Opera
Proper pro opera
Fun with fear and failure
Freak shows
Horrors wrestled into being
Spring to life
April in London has a number of operatic things that look kind of fun
Going for a song
In true bel canto, the only important thing is the voice, the song
Just do the bloody show
Rusalka, Royal Opera House
Beyond satire
Opera North and English Touring Opera have plied an honourable trade without trying to gain kudos
It’s not for kids
Children are always unwelcome in Opera, except in The Magic Flute
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