Profile: Judith Weir
This award-winning British composer is best known for her operas, but she also creates orchestral and choral works and chamber music.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 17 Nov 2023
This award-winning British composer is best known for her operas, but she also creates orchestral and choral works and chamber music.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 16 Oct 2023
We often hear the word aria in connection with opera, but what does it really mean and where did the word come from? Rebecca Armstrong investigates.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 15 Sep 2023
Salieri’s little-known opera buffa is brought to the UK for the first time in this new English-language version by Bampton Classical Opera. Rebecca Armstrong was impressed.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 24 May 2023
From creative highs to freelance lows, find out what it’s really like to work as a theatre designer. Rebecca Armstrong talked to Noemi Daboczi, a film and theatre set and costume designer.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 10 Apr 2023
This Italian composer is particularly known for his comic operas, as well as that famous refrain from the William Tell Overture. But he wrote a wide range of music and was a well-known foodie.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 24 Mar 2023
Deeper than deep, the bass singer goes as low as the human voice can go. Editor Rebecca Armstrong delves into this rumbling, rich sound.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 15 Mar 2023
Ethyl Smyth’s opera The Wreckers is a tale of love, lies and betrayal in an 18th century fishing village that partakes in the highly illegal practice of luring ships onto the rocks so they can be pillaged.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 25 Jan 2023
From sorceresses at war to social rejection – by way of Dickens, fairytales and gender identity – Rebecca Armstrong uncovers some of the best operas written by women you can watch for free.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 2 Dec 2022
Wondering what to get the opera lover in your life for Christmas? Or maybe you’re stuck for ideas for your own Christmas list. Rebecca Armstrong rounds up some opera-related gifts.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 14 Nov 2022
Sets create a production’s look, placing it within the context of the story and communicating the time period, location and more. The set designer is responsible for this. Rebecca Armstrong looks at this essential role.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 17 Nov 2023
This award-winning British composer is best known for her operas, but she also creates orchestral and choral works and chamber music.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 16 Oct 2023
We often hear the word aria in connection with opera, but what does it really mean and where did the word come from? Rebecca Armstrong investigates.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 15 Sep 2023
Salieri’s little-known opera buffa is brought to the UK for the first time in this new English-language version by Bampton Classical Opera. Rebecca Armstrong was impressed.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 24 May 2023
From creative highs to freelance lows, find out what it’s really like to work as a theatre designer. Rebecca Armstrong talked to Noemi Daboczi, a film and theatre set and costume designer.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 10 Apr 2023
This Italian composer is particularly known for his comic operas, as well as that famous refrain from the William Tell Overture. But he wrote a wide range of music and was a well-known foodie.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 24 Mar 2023
Deeper than deep, the bass singer goes as low as the human voice can go. Editor Rebecca Armstrong delves into this rumbling, rich sound.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 15 Mar 2023
Ethyl Smyth’s opera The Wreckers is a tale of love, lies and betrayal in an 18th century fishing village that partakes in the highly illegal practice of luring ships onto the rocks so they can be pillaged.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 25 Jan 2023
From sorceresses at war to social rejection – by way of Dickens, fairytales and gender identity – Rebecca Armstrong uncovers some of the best operas written by women you can watch for free.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 2 Dec 2022
Wondering what to get the opera lover in your life for Christmas? Or maybe you’re stuck for ideas for your own Christmas list. Rebecca Armstrong rounds up some opera-related gifts.
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