The actor Simon Callow has promised to take audiences to a “dark, murky, unsettling place”, with a new one-man stage show that explores the composer Richard Wagner’s “toxic” and “disgusting” anti-Semitism.
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Allegations of domestic violence will change not just Roberto Alagna's but Angela Gheorghiu’s image forever
Monday 01 July 2013
Angela Gheorghiu is everyone’s idea of the superstar opera singer: a hugely gifted soprano with electric stage presence, who also happens to be beautiful, full of star quality and something of a diva to boot.
Invictus: Nelson Mandela's favourite poem set to music by opera star Pumeza Matshikiza
Friday 21 June 2013
A poem which famously inspired Nelson Mandela during his decades of incarceration has been set to music by a rising opera star.
Ballet dancer David Wall dies of cancer aged 67
Wednesday 19 June 2013
He was the Royal Ballet's youngest male principal at 21 and danced with Dame Margot Fonteyn
Placido Domingo to receive ceremonial Freedom of the City of London
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo is in the UK today to receive the ceremonial Freedom of the City of London.
'I won't take a pay-off': New BBC Director-General Tony Hall says he won't accept massive redundancy payment if he fails
Wednesday 03 April 2013
Tony Hall, the new BBC Director-General, has pledged to end a culture of excessive redundancy payments for executives and promised that he will not accept a pay-off if he fails in the post.
Tate's Alex Beard gets top job at Royal Opera House
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Deputy director of the Tate Alex Beard has been appointed to the top role at the Royal Opera House.
Opera: Written on Skin at The Royal Opera House
Friday 08 March 2013
A heavenly tale that gets under the skin
Highly strung sopranos reach diva pitch
Friday 01 March 2013
Do you have to be a diva to take on Tosca?
New BBC Director General Tony Hall makes power play on Lord Patten
Thursday 14 February 2013
His Westminster connections and technological knowledge will benefit Tony Hall
Oscar-nominated visual effects company behind Life of Pi files for bankruptcy protection
Thursday 14 February 2013
Rhythm & Hues Studios, one of America's best known effects companies, has worked on 145 films from Babe to Django Unchained
Final salary pensions closing at record rate
Monday 28 January 2013
Coalition policies blamed for accelerating trend away from most generous retirement schemes
Have you ever wondered if our obesity rates and terrible sports facilities are perhaps related?
Thursday 13 December 2012
And if you have, and you happen to be George Osborne, what might you do about it? The educational, personal and social benefits of sports in school are well proven
The man who made Wagner mad
Saturday 01 December 2012
The Royal Opera House is staging Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable for the first time in a century. It's a welcome focus on a much maligned composer
It's going to be expensive: BBC has already spent £200,000 on staff legal costs in Jimmy Savile inquiries
Tuesday 27 November 2012
The BBC has already spent more than £200,000 in legal fees investigating the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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