Mozart's comic masterpiece takes the audience through a chaotic 24 hours as Figaro, the count's valet, desperately tries to marry maid Susanna before his master beats him to it and gets her into bed.Davi...
Don Giovanni leaves a trail of seduced women, bested opponents and victims in his wake on his path - straight to hell. Mozart's epic features a memorable chorus starring all the people this magnificent...
2013 will be the centenary year of Benjamin Britten's birth and The Guildhall School are starting celebrations early with this colourful, melodramatic opera based on Shakespeare's classic fairy-fuelled...
A modern setting highlights the timelessness of Mozart and Da Ponte's opera, in which two men test the fidelity of their lovers.Jonathan Miller's production is revived at the Royal Opera House by director ...
The Royal Opera House kick off their new season in ambitious style with Wagner's epic Ring cycle. The Holy Grail for opera-lovers, this is about as powerful - and as long - as opera gets.Performed in ...
The adored burlesque star Violetta reigns over East London's cultural scene. Artists, dancers, barristers and baristas love to love her, but they don't really know her. She hides a secret that makes things...
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's classic story of passion and deception receives a makeover from director Joe Hill-Gibbins.Beatrice-Joanna is madly infatuated with Alsemero and desperate to get out ...
The Duchess finds herself widowed and tied to her two brutish brothers who refuse to let her remarry so they can keep a hold on her inheritance. The discovery of her relationship with Antonio, her steward...
The endlessly inventive and dynamic Faction Theatre Company have managed to pull off a hat-trick, completing their rep season with a fiery, passionate and intimate Miss Julie that seems perfectly mou...
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina explores the very nature of love. Anna is thrown into emotional turmoil after an affair and though she is beautiful and admired, she is also a wife and mother and her story of destructive...
Flitting between and blurring dreams and reality, Offenbach's final opera recalls a man's lost loves, based on the stories of German writer E.T.Hoffmann.As poet Hoffmann finds himself hopelessly infatuated ...
Once upon a time the Fab Four were the not quite so fab five, a band that was struggling along and performing rock'n'roll covers in seedy clubs.This new show, making its West End premiere after a run ...
All singing, high kicking fun is the order of the day in this sexy, sleazy musical set in prohibition era Chicago, and following a showgirl named Roxie Hart as she tries to clear her name of a murder she...
This Noël Coward is set in a country house by the Thames where four guests arrive. They may expect a civilised weekend of polite chat and illicit love affairs, but what they get is a family of bohemians...
Rachmaninov's Vespers by Candlelight is performed tonight by choir Encoro, directed by its co-founders, leading conductor Sarah Tenant-Flowers and Janet Lince.
An exhibition showcasing the best of contemporary photographic talent at the National Portrait Gallery right now. On display are the prize-winners from the 2011 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize...
After his death in 2011 comes the National Portrait Gallery's survey of the portraits of Lucian Freud - one of Britain's best loved artists. Freud is one of the major names in post-war British art. His...