Trying to understand the depth of opera in one class can be daunting for anybody. Carolina D'Souza gives it a try. Opera for Dummies, the book and the idea, has been exhausted. Yet I find myself ...

At this difficult time for us all, Opera Holland Park certainly knows a thing or two. It knows that home teaching can present challenges to absolutely anyone. It recognises the benefits that music can ...

When his first opera Into the Little Hill was premiered in Paris in 2006, George Benjamin was already 46. His chamber-scale piece to a libretto by Martin Crimp on the legend of the Pied Piper of ...

OPERA stars visited music students at a Darlington school to give them an insight into their profession. Members of the English Touring Opera Company performing at Darlington's Civic Theatre, held a ...

George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Copyright © 2025 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

English National Opera is in a right old mess, and last week's resignation of its general director, Nicholas Payne, inevitable though it was, won't do much to sort the problems out. What has gone ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Doan Lien Huong and her classmates eagerly awaited their upcoming Japanese class, a special lesson that would be learned by watching a classic Japanese opera instead of reading ...

HOMELESS people in Cardiff are to be given acting and singing lessons before taking to the stage in a full-scale opera production. HOMELESS people in Cardiff are to be given acting and singing lessons ...

Jailbirds who sing usually face a chorus of disapproval from fellow inmates. “Squealers” face rough justice if caught informing to prison bosses. But crooks may need a new word for the spies in their ...