guiding the audience through the opulent Paris Opera House and into the Phantom’s shadowy lair with thrilling effect, effectively highlighting the story’s inherent romanticism and suspense. Ben ...

Unlike costumes in Western operas, those in Chinese Opera are highly symbolic, hinting at the personality, social status and even the destiny of the operatic characters, characterised by their colours ...

2 hours and 15 minutes, including one intermission. Gilbert & Sullivan’s pirate ship docks in New Orleans in this jazzy-bluesy vision of the crowd-pleasing classic, in an outrageously clever ...

In a series of screens hanging between racks of opera costumes, three characters who could be in a medieval fantasy game – a baby, a small boy and an old man – sob imploringly at us from their AI ...