The Carmen Melis is becoming an opera house, for a limited number of performers. The "mystic gulf," the area where the orchestra is located during opera performances, will be inaugurated. Marking the ...

A host of Polish opera singers are scheduled to perform during the 2026/2027 season at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Piotr BeczałaWojciech Kusiński/PR Tenor Piotr Beczała, a regular guest at the ...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is one of the great American novels of the turn of the century, and, as its millions of readers will concur, prime material for a screen adaptation. On ...

aNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK bNational Institute for Health Research Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK cPatient ...

Long known for its olives and seaside charm, the southern Greek city of Kalamata has found itself in the spotlight thanks to a towering mural that reimagines legendary soprano Maria Callas as an ...

Choreography for the chorus - vocally fine when singing a cappella, sometimes lost in sync with the orchestra - is by Lizzie Gee, too innocent and clunky (it worked for G&S). Two dancers doubling as ...

Jamie Manton’s new production for English National Opera is sparky and substantial. Danielle de Niese brings star quality to tarty Jenny, and the chorus are consistently superb What’s the worst crime ...

Has psychiatry sold its soul to the pharmaceutical industry? This is a question being asked a lot of late with reports of numerous studies published in top medical journals and even textbooks being ...

Ever since its opening night in Leipzig in 1930 – which turned into a riot – Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s opera has courted controversy, partly through its irredeemably bleak view of human life and ...

There’s no denying that Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny packs a punch. Kurt Weill’s score has bite, colour and a kind of glittering vulgarity that can turn on a threepenny bit from cabaret to ...