Bizet's librettists, Cormon and Carré, didn't really know, or probably much care, where they were: pearl fishers, or rather divers, Nadir and Zurga invoke the Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in ...

In a curious way, the limitations of Opera North’s new version, in what they call a “concert staging” – meaning that it can be performed both in a theatre (as last night) or elsewhere without the ...

Though it was written just six years after Madama Butterfly, this opera by the King of Ragtime was never performed in full during his lifetime. It wasn’t until the score was rediscovered in the 1970s ...