Performer: Aletta Collins

Mark Ravenhill directs a brutal, bloody Salome at the spiritual home of British boxing, York Hall. 

Elisa Verzier, making her Glyndebourne debut, is astonishing as Violetta in a revival of Tom Cairns' 2014 production. 

English National Opera's It’s a Wonderful Life makes for a feel-good evening of theatre, but it requires a sweet tooth.

Excellent musical performances are confounded by clumsy, unimaginative staging in Rameau's explosive first opera.

Mark-Anthony Turnage's take on Neil Gaiman's classic young adult novella is well sung and well staged, without quite reaching peak intensity.

Britain's oldest dance company continues to entertain, challenge and inspire with yet another well-rounded triple bill 

The honours system recognises people who have made achievements in public life and committed themselves to serving and helping Britain.

The trailblaizing playwright makes a return to the operatic stage to direct a new production of Strauss’ Salome with Regents Opera – held in an old boxing venue, an apt location given the opera’s bloody subject...