Opera
The cat in a hat
A colourful glimpse into a dramatic feast of sex and death
Why it’s time to drop Don Giovanni
Mariame Clément’s new production of Don Giovanni falls prey to modern mores.
An effortful opera
A fun but difficult production of Il Trovatore
Proper pro opera
Fun with fear and failure
Spring to life
April in London has a number of operatic things that look kind of fun
A major talent
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with excessive bright (BIS)
Going for a song
In true bel canto, the only important thing is the voice, the song
The jackpot of opera
The Rhinegold, English National Opera, Coliseum
Beyond satire
Opera North and English Touring Opera have plied an honourable trade without trying to gain kudos
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
