Opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to Director Francesco Micheli, Costume Designer Alessio Rosati and Costume Supervisor Diane Williams to explore our production of Handel's Alcina.
Directed by Melly Still, this new production is the first major, professional staging of our lifetime, and the first opportunity to hear the opera as Smyth intended, with its original French libretto.
Opera specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to director Melly Still and mezzo-soprano Karis Tucker...
Love conquers all in Berlioz’s sparkling take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
Opera Specialist Alexandra Coghlan talks to Berlioz scholar Hugh MacDonald and actress Katherine Parkinson to explore the opera.
Donizetti's blissful big-hearted L'elisir d'amore throws an operatic spanner in the works, proving that comedy can be romantic too with a capital 'R' as well as a small one.
Alexandra Coghlan talks to musicologist Dr Flora Willson and novelist Amanda Craig to explore the opera.