At the end of the 17th century, a convent in Avignon in Southern France was razed to the ground. The fire was the result of arson laid by a soon-to-be opera singer named Julie D’Aubigny, the daughter ...

They say that in life there are three guarantees: death, taxes, and that if there is a complicated woman in need of a stylishly done, painstakingly constructed biopic, then Pablo Larraín is the man to ...

Pretty Yende nearly took ‘break a leg’ a little too literally ahead of performing at King Charles’s Coronation. The evening before she sang ‘Sacred Fire’ at Westminster Abbey on that May day in 2023, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The opera, we’re told, ain’t over till the fat lady sings. We might be waiting a long time these days. In a ...

The English National Opera has been slammed for handing out redundancy notices to singers and musicians midway through their final performance of the The Handmaid's Tale. The performers were sent the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The opera house in Vilnius is hard to miss — a colossal concrete monolith in a fairytale town. The theatre ...

Meet the Bradford City football fans who will go from singing on the terraces to wowing audiences after being transformed into opera singers. From a 90-year-old match-day volunteer at the club to a 19 ...

Comedian and TV personality Dom Joly is being haunted, he thinks. And not by just any old ghost, but an opera-singing one. The 57-year-old has opened up about the supernatural star residing in his ...

Meet the football fans who will go from singing on the terraces to wowing audiences after being transformed into opera singers Meet the Bradford City football fans who will go from singing on the ...