Happiness, George Burns once quipped, is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

17 years on from its first outing, Christopher Alden’s surrealist staging of Partenope remains one of ENO’s most stylish and subversive Handel productions. Reimagining the Neapolitan heroine as a ...

Partenope one of Handel’s best Italian operas? Probably not, though as in all good comedies there are moments of depth, mostly in the last act; we even begin to care about the fraught relationship ...

English National Opera’s (ENO) new production of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking is a towering achievement – musically, dramatically and emotionally. Directed by Annilese Miskimmon ...

After the British composer and conductor Benjamin Britten wrote two serious operas in the form of Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia, he decided to turn his hand to comedy. The result was Albert ...

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The coastal Italian resort of Pesaro is one of those places with views of two seas. There’s the invitingly warm water of the Adriatic, which is separated from the land by a sea of beach umbrellas.

O’Sullivan has emerged as a marvellous singer-actor, with a singular, beautiful and at times sensual mezzo instrument. She makes Carmen real: defiant, provocative and fierce, brave rather than ...

Opera Philadelphia’s 50th-season opener, Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims,” performed over the past two weekends at the Academy of Music, was appropriately tongue-in-cheek. Anthony Roth Costanzo, who ...

Kai Cenat is one of the biggest names in livestreaming. He’s the guy who turned subathons into must-see events, pulled Linkin Park into his studio for a surprise set, and just spent a nearly ...

Have you heard that there’s a world war starting right now in Korea? Alright, alright, it’s not as violent as it sounds. But there definitely are going to be plenty of international battles happening ...