Josephine Illingworth Law and Toni Ledda
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Eric McElroy
John Joubert, one of the most celebrated British composers of our time, died on 7 January at the age of...
This term, the Oxford Playhouse is putting forward a dynamic cure to 5th Week Blues: a light-hearted romp across the...
Ariane Laurent-Smith and Naomi Southwell
Jericho continues to echo its historic role as a place for travellers to rest as we feature another café on...
Charlotte Vickers
It’s impossible to quite describe what happens in Off the Page Production’s The Marriage of Kim K. Every time you...
Peter Thickett
Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia: Director’s Foreword Benjamin Britten’s music has long held a place close to my heart....
Timothy Coleman
I was reminded a few days ago why I’m directing Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw. The whole cast...
✮✮✮✮✮ Despite being nearly 400 years old, The Coronation of Poppea is a work that is frequently noted for its...
Phillip Babcock
Preposterous, outlandish, and ludicrously absurd, Oxford University’s Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s production of the comic opera Iolanthe is a hilariously...
Charlotte Vickers
✮✮✮✮ This week St Peter’s Chapel has been transformed into a beautiful, enchanting, Ancient Greece for the production of Henry...
Eleanor Donachie
Premiered in Milan in 1904, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly was first met with outcry, amidst an uproar of hisses and obscene...
Georgie Whitehead
Oxford, and LMH in particular, host many interesting events but I must say that I’ve never attended an event in...
Betty Yang
The beautiful grounds of Wadham college are a long way away from Bertolt Brecht’s vision of the dark criminal underbelly...
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William Aslet
The English National Opera, London’s second opera company, is in crisis. Earlier this year, its Music Director, Mark Wigglesworth, quit...
Yolanda Shamash and Hoagy Cunningham
His 1946 opera, The Rape of Lucretia, is one of Benjamin Britten’s most highly charged pieces, which harrowingly portrays the...
William Shaw
If you’ve ever thought that Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro could be made better with the addition of reality TV stars, a...
William Shaw
Third week has been insanely good for student drama, and The Prophetess feels like a combination of the week’s biggest...
Caitlin Jauncey
“The music.” Producer Katie Jeffries-Harris’ immediate answer to the question of why choose The Coronation of Poppea may be short...
Lila Chrisp
Since 1993, opera director and producer Ellen Kent has been turning the tables on public perceptions of what opera is....
