Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has turned a 1998 Danish film into a riveting operatic masterpiece at the Royal Opera House ...

So the Royal Opera had assembled a dream cast, conductor (Edward Gardner) and director (Richard Jones). The only question ...

So this is what opera can be today. Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has never flinched from choosing challenging subjects, ever ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage's production is characteristically bold, but operatic grandeur doesn't lend itself to the Danish ...

Leading director Richard Jones on opera’s identity crisis, working with Mike Yarwood and his ‘thrilling and audacious’ new ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall’s adaptation at the Royal Opera is even more emotionally lacerating than the 1998 original ...

Leoš Janáček is now acknowledged as one of the greatest opera composers of the early 20th century and Jenůfa is perhaps his finest and certainly his most intense work. It is not often seen, however, ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s taboo-busting 1998 film Festen (The Celebration) centred around a 60th birthday party at which the ...

It was nicely appropriate that one of the ovations on first night should be for conductor Jakub Hrusa, who was making his maiden appearance as the new music director of the Royal Opera House.

The issue of cultural appropriation remains a hot topic in opera. Is it still PC to have Puccini’s Madama Butterfly set in Japan or his Turandot in China? And what is to be done with Verdi’s Aida, a ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...