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The Makropulos Affair defies the march of time
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Orla Boylan’s creation oozes charisma and reeks of entitlement, driven to emotional cruelty by the lassitude of a life too-long lived.
Marx in London! Dove’s comedy impresses at Scottish Opera
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Marx in London! receives its UK premiere in Glasgow, with David Parry conducting the colourful score, and Stephen Barlow directing.
Amazing Breaking the Waves: Scottish Opera at the Adelaide Festival
Breaking the Waves is a remarkable opera. Scottish Opera has brought a thrilling cast, orchestra and team to Adelaide, and its audiences are all the richer for it.
An Aida that strips away the Egyptian iconography
Michael Barker-Caven sets Aida in a 21st-century war zone in the Middle-East, allowing the audience to focus on the human drama.
Trevino leads powerful Mahler Second in Dublin
If there's any way to characterise Trevino's approach to Mahler, it is that he is neither bashful nor shy.
The Big Bang: a starry launch for Irish National Opera
The biggest stigma associated with opera in Ireland is not that it is an elitist art form, but that it is not “Irish”, and that it doesn’t belong to Irish culture, more of a recent import, like pasta, or avocado.