Les Troyens
Dau is not just a pretentious fraud – it’s rather disgusting
Igor Toronyi-Lalic 16 February 2019 9:00 am
The best booers, in my experience, are the Germans. There’s real purpose and thickness to their vocals. Italians hiss. The…
Long live ENO!
Michael Tanner 27 February 2016 9:00 am
The three most moving, transporting death scenes in 19th-century opera all involve the respective heroines mounting a funeral pyre —…
Mariinsky’s Les Troyens — a bad night for Berlioz and Edinburgh
Hugo Shirley 6 September 2014 9:00 am
I wonder whether grand opéra really takes war as seriously as this year’s Edinburgh Festival wanted it to. These vast…