Politics Jacob Wohl’s cack-handed attempt to smear Mueller is undoubtedly funny – but it should worry us, too The wider context of Wohl’s scam attempt is that the far right are trying to appropriate the Me Too movement as a political weapon. That should… By Alexandra Coghlan
North America “A bullshit investigation”: Democrats say FBI probe is a Republican sham By Alexandra Coghlan
Music & Theatre Joyce DiDonato and Vittorio Grigolo light up the Royal Opera House’s tired Werther By Alexandra Coghlan
Music & Theatre Enescu’s Oedipe at the Royal Opera House: a neglected work worth revisiting By Alexandra Coghlan
Music & Theatre Morgen und Abend is thoughtful and beautiful – but it does little for opera By Alexandra Coghlan
David McVicar’s new production of Mozart’s first successful opera is a vision innocent of its own Orientalism Die Entführung aus dem Serail, or The Abduction from the Seraglio, hits the spot when staged at Glyndebourne. By Alexandra Coghlan
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is slick and energetic – but unsuited to the Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House is a fundamentally unsuitable space for its otherwise impressive production of the satire on capitalism, Rise… By Alexandra Coghlan
Topped in translation: two new London operas make a case for English-language productions The English National Opera’s The Mastersingers of Nuremberg and the Royal Opera’s L’Ormindo show that translated music-theatre can be exceptional. By Alexandra Coghlan
Martin Kušej’s Idomeneo at the Royal Opera House is baffling and troubling The production is alienating, and not a in a sexy, Brecht kind of a way. By Alexandra Coghlan
At the Verbier Festival, a lot of music is packed into a small town From Brahms’s chamber music to Mozart opera, the little Swiss ski-village provides a musical feast. By Alexandra Coghlan
Widescreen, blockbuster Mozart at the Bregenz Festival’s The Magic Flute A small Austrian town tucked almost against the Swiss and German borders on the magnificent Lake Constance, Bregenz has… By Alexandra Coghlan
La Finta Giardiniera is one piece of juvenilia opera houses should grow out of Alexandra Coghlan finds Glyndebourne's glossy and irreverant reworking of Mozart's teenage opera ultimately lacking. By Alexandra Coghlan
Uneasy futility at the opera: Manon Lescaut and In the Penal Colony Alexandra Coghlan reviews Jonathan Kent’s new production of Manon Lescaut at the Royal Opera House and Shadwell Opera’s In… By Alexandra Coghlan