Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera Don Pasquale - first performed in early January 1843 in Paris - ended the opera buffa period on a high note. Its hugely successful premiere which included 4 of the most renowned singers of the day has remained a popular inclusion in the operatic repertoire to this day, despite a few noticeable periods of absence when it inexplicably fell out of fashion.
Pretty Yende (Norina) and Lucio Gallo (Don Pasquale) in Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House © 2022 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper.
Marcos Morau’s troupe La Veronal had the National Dance Award bestowed upon it by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2015 and has produced bizarrely compelling work which defies definition and categorisation, ever since.
During the final days of Germany’s crumbling Third Reich, the once efficient and mechanised nation has become a volatile and dangerous place, with the lives of potentially thousands of concentration camp inmates hanging in the balance. In Ben Brown’s new play, physiotherapist Felix Kersten (Michael Lumsden) attempts to convene a secret meeting between his Nazi patient Heinrich Himmler (Richard Clothier) and a Swedish member of the World Jewish Congress, Norbert Masur (Ben Caplan).
Maintaining its freshness and bubbly energy with a recent cast change, the jukebox musical