Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
Gelding: the pros
Bring back the castratos? Might as well
Revolution in the air
Andrea Chénier, Royal Opera House
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
Loony tunes
Opera begs leave to celebrate lunacy in a different way
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Cecilia Featherstonehaugh
Posh publisher
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
