The current revival of Leos Janacek’s opera Jenufa by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum is a welcome addition to the London music scene. It should not be missed by lovers of dramatic opera. Janacek based the opera on the play Her Stepdaughter by the Czech feminist writer Gabriela Preissova. His daughter Olga […]
Tannhaüser is something of a problem-piece. It is probably the weakest of Wagner’s mature operas, it is rarely performed and Wagner himself was never entirely satisfied with it. He revised the work several times and said shortly before his death “I still owe the world a Tannhaüser”. Most of Wagner’s revisions affected the music rather […]
If you are off to see Covent Garden’s new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor expecting to see something controversial or even scandalous, you will be disappointed. The reviews of the opening night mentioned the booing at the sex scenes, the blood and the use of a bath (for sex?). Instead, what you will encounter […]
Many of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas explore relationships between fathers and daughters. His The Force of Destiny, currently performed by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum, explores the collapse and end of a relationship between a father and his daughter. The controversial director Calixto Bieito has produced a thrilling staging that is well worth […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
