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 | 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 | 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 | 24 Aug 2022
Largely unknown today, Amanda Aldridge was a successful Black British composer, singer and vocal coach.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 5 Aug 2022
This internationally renowned Italian baritone had a repertoire of almost 100 operatic roles, singing some of the great Verdi and Puccini baritone parts.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 11 Jul 2022
This celebrated female composer was a master of the Baroque style and at one point the highest-paid musician of the 17th-century Medici court.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 15 Jun 2022
In our continuing series on who does what in opera, editor Rebecca Armstrong looks at the all-important role of lighting technician.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 11 Feb 2022
This world-famous, award-winning conductor has blazed a trail for women conductors everywhere.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 24 Jan 2022
The conductor is one of the most visible people in a performance, but many people are baffled as to what they actually do, or why they’re even needed. Rebecca Armstrong explains this most necessary of roles.
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 | 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 | 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 | 24 Aug 2022
Largely unknown today, Amanda Aldridge was a successful Black British composer, singer and vocal coach.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 5 Aug 2022
This internationally renowned Italian baritone had a repertoire of almost 100 operatic roles, singing some of the great Verdi and Puccini baritone parts.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 11 Jul 2022
This celebrated female composer was a master of the Baroque style and at one point the highest-paid musician of the 17th-century Medici court.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 15 Jun 2022
In our continuing series on who does what in opera, editor Rebecca Armstrong looks at the all-important role of lighting technician.
Read Moreby Rebecca Armstrong | 11 Feb 2022
This world-famous, award-winning conductor has blazed a trail for women conductors everywhere.
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