Being Modest Mussorgsky doesn't look like fun, at least not as he's portrayed in Daniel Kramer's dramatisation of his short and troubled life in Pictures From An Exhibition.... more
Not only has Edward Gardner, ENO's 34-year-old music director, scored another hit with Peter Grimes this week - he's leading a cultural revolution... more
English National Opera is joining forces with the Young Vic to create a new kind of opera out of a film by David Lynch. Something as bold as this could work only in London, says its director Diane Paulus.... more
Nicholas de Jongh finds the revival of Bent as horrific as its 1979 premiere. And the tale of gay persecution in Nazi death camps remains relevant, he says.... more