Pink, voguing, drag, stiletto heels, opera, seeing that list, you may feel that opera seems out of place, but you couldn't be more wrong. On July 10, Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO) took all those and ...

Christophe Rousset is a William Christie protegé who in 1991 set up Les Talens Lyriques, a small theatrically driven baroque music ensemble which injects new life into old operas with the delicately ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platée, at Garsington Opera - Alastair Muir Comic opera can be cruel, but it is hard to think of any that is quite so brutal as ...

It always feels like the beginning of summer when I zip along the M40 to the Getty family’s stunning Wormsley Estate for the opening of the Garsington Opera season. The 2024 Season runs from Wednesday ...

French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Platée for the wedding of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV of France, and the Infanta Maria Theresa ...

First staged as part of a royal wedding celebration at Versailles in 1745, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera was originally described as a ‘comédie ballet’ or a ‘comédie lyrique’; Garsington calls it ...

The Only Way is Ancient Rome in this retelling of Rameau’s 1745 opera with Samuel Boden captivating in the title role To the left: a tiled hot tub and mini colonnade. To the right: a show-home bar ...

Breathless action and Rameau’s fizzing score ignite in Louisa Muller’s ingenious take on French baroque, while Stephen Barlow’s 60s-set Puccini sparkles in a long-overdue revival Garsington Opera has ...

Rameau’s opera has a deeply unpleasant plot, but Garsington’s exuberantly vulgar, expertly sung staging makes it fly Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works ...