The end of a novel or play or a musical composition is always a challenge. It has to arrive, to conclude a journey, bring together the...

How can Bizet’s two best-known operas be so different – in so short a lifetime? Between the early, much criticised mythical and romantic...

The book (1891) In his novel Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), Herman Melville set – on the ocean of course – a story of evil...

From the book to the film, then to the opera. We’ve seen this pattern before but in the making of Moby-Dick, the journey has been...

Yes, we start the new year of our Opera Course laughing. Specifically, by popular demand, at Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance....

Welcome to Tuning in to Opera, 2023! Why start our year with a term whose theme is not an opera composer or a cultural focus or a period...