Stanton Williams' Open Up project for the Royal Opera House does just that: it opens up what had previously been a constrained set of spaces to the world outside. In doing so, it forms a new public ...

This was very well brought out with energetic conducting by Rafael Payare of Venezuela of the always excellent Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Seeing a new version of an old favourite is ...

Il trovatore is a director’s graveyard. The Royal Opera has had repeated failures with it over the years (how many remember the giant polystyrene rocks in Piero Faggioni’s shortlived production?), ...