A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment

A daring production of a daring work

Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail

Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism

As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations

Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked

Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex

As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?

On opera’s flirtation with current affairs

We should resist the cultural reductionism of the modern “creative industries”