A graphic gang rape scene performed at a London opera house that was booed by the audience has been toned down following a wave of criticism. Kasper Holten, director of opera at the Royal Opera House, ...
AN OPERA company starring two strippers has received complaints after it took to the stage in Wales. The pair were signed up by the Ukrainian National Opera of Odessa for its production of Rigoletto, ...
Pro-Palestinian protesters were allowed to chant 'gas the Jews' and burn the Star of David in front of Sydney's Opera House on Monday night - while a counter-demonstrator was arrested for attempting ...
TO ANYONE not familiar with opera, it’s a world shrouded in mystery – and the effort that goes into putting a production together is mysterious even to seasoned opera-goers. This winter, ...
The Royal Opera House has bowed to growing pressure and toned down a gang-rape scene so that the principal actress will no longer appear naked in its production of Guillaume Tell. The Opera House’s ...
As the Royal Opera House hires its first ‘intimacy coordinator’, we take a look at the rise of this role within the performing arts sector. An intimacy coordinator’s job is to direct a group of ...
Nude images have been cut from a £550,000 TV opera about Princess Diana to be screened on the fifth anniversary of her death. Channel 4 bosses axed a controversial scene in which a male character ...
The identity of the actress at the centre of the Royal Opera House rape scene row was revealed today. Jessica Chamberlain was seen being subjected to a brutal wartime rape in a scene that has provoked ...
Leeds might be synonymous with pop bands like Kaiser Chiefs, or its renowned International Piano Competition, driven by the late Fanny Waterman, but the city’s operatic heritage predates all this. Did ...