Why I’ve made a Yorkshire version of t’Barber of Seville
The Bard of Barnsley is bringing flat vowels to Rossini's masterpiece - and he thinks his Uncle Charlie would have been proud
The Bard of Barnsley is bringing flat vowels to Rossini's masterpiece - and he thinks his Uncle Charlie would have been proud
At first, he could only distribute his periodical in the gents’ loos of the Met. Twelve years later, he was being given free press seats
Tensions between musicians and the executive have long been at the heart of the opera house’s miseries
The resignation of music director Martyn Brabbins highlights the fact that only with world-class musicianship can ENO speak to the nation
Stepping down after 30 years at the company, the general director talks about the art form's constant uphill struggles – and his next move
For the first in his new four-year Ring cycle, Barrie Kosky pares back the sumptuousness to create a more elemental Wagnerian spectacle
As director Barrie Kosky tackles Das Rheingold, here is everything you always wanted to know about The Ring (but didn't dare to ask)
The epic cycle, by Hitler's favourite composer, is daunting, complex – and one of the most profound achievements of western civilisation
Scottish Opera's highly accomplished concert staging magnifies the problematic provenance of Richard Strauss's work
From Ridley Scott's Napoleon to swashbuckling Golden Age paintings and the return of Doctor Who, our critics on the season’s must-sees
Barrie Kosky's punishingly dark vision of the Czech composer's masterpiece, recorded at the Salzburg Festival, now arrives on DVD
Barrie Kosky's take on Brecht's timeless 'play with songs' is a glittering highlight of the 2023 Edinburgh International Festival
The reprieve is a tacit admission that the funding body's approach to opera was seriously wrong
'Ill-thought-out and impractical scheme’ was condemned by the classical music community for tearing at ‘the flesh of our culture’
Joélle Harvey is dazzling in this thundering love story, but the production lacks cohesion, while slicing the dinner interval feels strange
Composer Jonathan Dove has created a motoric score from the drama about a schoolboy who loves the periodic table of elements
This year’s Children's Prom played up the form's grandeur, madness and menace, keeping pre-teen audiences enthralled
Opera Holland Park's new staging of the Puccini favourite recasts the action as playing out on a 1950s film set – with mixed results
Longborough Festival Opera's new staging of Monteverdi's great music drama scores highly for energy, less so for eloquence
The epitome of quality community opera, Benjamin Britten's poignant piece features an orchestra made up of fantastic young musicians