Posts Tagged ‘opera’
Hopes & Fears, Arcola Outside, stage review: ‘Beauty buried in pain’
An opera that faces up to its difficult subject matter ‘all pipes blasting’
Read MoreFrom Russia to Watford: OperaUpClose to perform restaged, rewritten Tchaikovsky libretto in Arcola show
We speak to the Olivier Award-winning lyricist Robin Norton-Hale about the company’s unique take on Eugene Onegin
Read MoreArcola, The Marriage of Kim K review: ‘it isn’t going to break the internet’
This new, zeitgeisty production – the opener of the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn opera season – is packed with ideas that sometimes pay off, but is ultimately noisy and confused
Read MoreGrimeborn Festival, Arcola, review: ‘excellent programme of rarities and standards’
Opera gets back to its experimental roots at the Arcola’s annual festival
Read MoreWilde Wilde East – The Importance of Being Earnest comes to the Barbican
An operatic adaptation of one of the most celebrated comedies in the English language comes to the Barbican this month
Read MoreSex Workers Opera: raising marginalised voices and challenging sterotypes
Escorts, strippers and webcam performers are among the cast of Arcola production opening next week
Read MoreDalston's Grimeborn festival is underway
It’s the time of the season for alternative opera at the Arcola with annual Grimeborn festival
Read MoreLore Lixenberg: a breath of fresh aria
The Stoke Newington opera singer who blurs the boundary between composition and performance
Read MoreHackney duo to stage experimental opera Room of Worlds
William Morris and a work of early feminist fiction are the inspirations for contemporary chamber opera featuring electronics and video
Read MoreFernando Messulam: the restaurant owner with a 'steak' in opera
Restaurant manager and tenor Fernando Messulam indulges his passion for music by holding monthly opera night
Read MoreCarousel- review
Opera North’s Carousel is an enjoyable, if hardly revolutionary version of the classic musical
Read MoreGrimeborn 2012 – an alternative festival of opera
This year, the Arcola’s unconventional musical theatre and opera festival will be held in the Tent
Read MoreGoing for Rhinegold
The Yard Theatre hosts an adrenaline-fuelled, modern reworking of Wagner’s Ring Cycle masterpiece
Read MoreLes Enfants Terribles
Arcola, London
Read MoreConfucius and Chinese folk tales form Hackney childrens’ opera
Hackney Music Development Trust discuss their latest project with Matt Hanley
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