Mad for it: Director Katie Mitchell on her new Royal Opera production of Lucia di Lammermoor
7 October 2015
The director discusses her vision of Donizetti's opera as a tale of drama, jeopardy and feminism.
Why opera's future is more diverse than its past
21 September 2015
Opera is reinventing itself and creating a more relevant, inclusive and dynamic art-form in the process.
Women who win the day: Opera’s triumphant heroines
2 September 2015
Opera is (perhaps justly) infamous for killing off its heroines – we look at some of the women who buck the trend.
How to Stage an Opera: Faust and the 19th Century
22 April 2014
How the vernacular of Gounod’s era makes the work anything but trivial.