David Alden’s blackly comic Kafkaesque production has a strong cast whose lively performances were not always matched by the Early Opera Company in the pit ...

This whimsical and witty take on the historic love story is an apt tribute to the Grange Festival’s departing artistic director ...

Handel’s breathtaking Giulio Cesare opens with a continual barrage of virtuoso arias, and never lets up. This clever new production for the Grange Festival, by David Alden, is a whimsical and witty ...

As opera star Danielle de Niese prepares to make her directorial debut, she tells us how she tackles famous roles and why the ...

Edmonia Lewis' Death of Cleopatra was a sensation at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, among both admirers and those who found Lewis' depiction of the queen's suicide too macabre. Kelly ...

Salisbury Baroque will present a special concert featuring Handel's renowned works. Directed by violinist Theresa Caudle, the programme has been described as a 'Baroque Bonanza'. It will feature two ...

The conundrum of five women, three of them men, is the same as it was in the last Serse I witnessed, in the more intimate ...