Opera
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Sounds and sweet airs
Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it
Let’s appreciate Wagner for Wagner
Politics and historical commentary aside, Lohengrin is currently on at Covent Garden
Godunov for me
Ignoring Russian opera — and, in particular, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — is a mistake
Genuine English opera
‘Peter Grimes’ labours under the weight of national anxieties
Too darn hot
Carmen still shocks and seduces
Theodora: an over-fussy feminist failure
With productions this bad, it is no surprise that nobody cares about opera
Musical Lessons
Could the jazz-hands pizzaz of musical theatre be just what opera needs?
Hans Werner Henze: The Sea Betrayed (Capriccio)
I was completely absorbed by this opera as a sound production — maybe one day I’ll get to see the whole show
Into the mystic
Contemporary debates over the “suitability” of many operas leaves us with only English productions