Opera

To the bitter end

Why on earth would we want to see the same tawdry old stories endlessly re-enacted?

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The G&S divide

A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan

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Original sin

Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera

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He’s not the Messiah!

Robert Thicknesse ruminates on The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko

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Odes to joy

Robert Thicknesse on Rossini’s extraordinary de-cluttering of the musical atmosphere

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Losing the plot

Robert Thicknesse reveals how in searching for meaning, opera adaptations are becoming more obscure

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Moving beyond the text

La Clemenza di Tito, Geneva

Artillery Row
Shock of the new

People are terrified of modernity’s great gift: the sudden freedom to make appalling noise, says Robert Thicknesse

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Cheer leaders

Opera unswervingly believes in the potential for a divine spark in humans, says Robert Thicknesse

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Do not go gently

Opera has treated the subject of cancelling the pleasures of others in some depth

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