Arts & Culture: Opera
Lead Feature
The drowned world
Elaborate stagecraft is superfluous in a piece as spare and grim as a Norse epic
Riders to the Sea Coliseum, London WC2
In opera
Back to the drawing room
- By Dan Hancox
- 13 November
Will "club-style" classical-music nights really win over new audiences?
This Isn't For You
King's Place, London N1
A different kind of organ
- By Jude Rogers
- 13 November
Radio 2, beset by scandal, is still the home of gloriously odd programming
Ode to electric joy
- By David Smyth
- 06 November
Africa Express was the jewel in the crown of a restlessly creative season
The Electric Proms
Various venues, London and Liverpool
Edinburgh, open city
- 24 July
Every August, the Scottish capital plays host to the world's biggest season of arts events. Here, NS critics preview their highlights of this year's festival
Unenlightened behaviour
- By Ian Irvine
- 03 July
Clunking anti-Americanism mars a bold updating of Bernstein's work
Candide
Coliseum, London WC2
How lust conquers all
- By Ian Irvine
- 22 May
Glyndebourne's first night lived up to the buzz with a passion-filled masterpiece
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Glyndebourne Festival
More in opera
An affair of the masses
- By Edward Skidelsky
- 14 February 2008
A lady of letters
- By Rick Jones
- 10 January 2008
Between the lines
- By Marc Geelhoed
- 03 January 2008
Making a song and dance about it
- By Rosie Millard
- 16 August 2007
The way I see it: Peter Sellars
- 19 July 2007
Monkeying around
- By Dan Hancox
- 12 July 2007
Passion play
- By Rick Jones
- 12 July 2007
