What would you sacrifice to gain a victory? While this question may be at the forefront of many of our minds in light of the conflict in the Middle East, director Oliver Mears’s new production ...
Sir Jeffrey was knighted six weeks ago for his services to British music overseas The respected classical conductor Sir Jeffrey Tate has died at the age of 74, his agency has confirmed. Sir ...
Anna-Maria Helsing has gained an outstanding reputation with leading Scandinavian orchestras and opera houses with her special affinity for the sound and style of modernism and contemporary music.
The King enjoyed a performance by the Royal Ballet so much that he “could not stop tapping his feet under the seat” as he was impressed by the show’s energy. Charles and the Queen visited ...
Charles and the Queen visited the Royal Opera House in central London for a special performance of Carlos Acosta's Don Quixote, before going behind the curtain to meet the cast of the show on Tuesday.
The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets. OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film) "The story behind the #1 album." The Return ...
Staging any oratorio as a successful opera demands directorial flair. Handel’s Jephtha is a case in point: its score and libretto were conceived for the concert platform and contain all the elements ...
Yuri Temirkanov, who has died aged 84, was a Russian conductor known for his old-school approach both to music-making and women; he drew rich, romantic sounds from orchestras in Britain, America ...
The initiative is designed to break down barriers between children and opera Pupils from 70 Teesside schools are to take part in singing sessions with the Royal Opera House (ROH). Over the coming ...
The story of Jephtha is, as the Handel scholar Ruth Smith points out, taken from the oldest account of the fight for possession of land in the Middle East. While that adds more than a frisson in ...
Dante, often a bystander to his own spiritual quest here, finds his own flailing arms and winding feet, and then watches moments from his own previous life with Beatrice, to skirling pipes and drums.
Handel and his librettist Thomas Morell in their oratorio about Jephtha’s rash promise are equivocal about the filicide, to say the least, and Royal Opera director Oliver Mears goes further in ...
