Get your opera glasses ready – the season is upon us Performances at most country house opera festivals offer the same format: the opera begins in the mid-afternoon, there’s an interval of 90 minutes ...

An aura of fear and prejudice circulates toxically around the idea of opera. It can seem to be ensconced smugly at the top of the tree of cultural activities – expensive, exclusive and encoded, hedged ...

One of the few positives that has come out of the pandemic is that there has never been more opportunity to experience something new. Theatre, ballet and opera companies have quickly realised that ...

With a new opera season starting, at least via streaming or tourism, it might be a good time to ask what opera is. Opera is like the movies. There’s the broad term of movies but within that are dozens ...

Opera is a sung stage drama set to music which usually plays continuously throughout the performance. What is the difference between opera and musicals? Musicals are plays with music; the music is ...