Opera

You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate

Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?

The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House

Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce

The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum

Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place

Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp

If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down

The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse