The organizations are both celebrating milestone anniversaries and will join together for the first time for 2 performances of Puccini's classic opera. For the first time ever, the Portland ...

Continuing what has become a tradition, this is another production that originated at Berkshire’s Watermill Theatre making use of the talents of actor-musicians. There’s an off-stage drum kit ...

Those who frequent downtown Wilmington can tell you that The Grand is more than a collection of theaters: The Grand Opera House (Copeland Hall), the baby grand, and, as of 2015, The Playhouse on ...

Decorating with wallpaper can add an interesting and pleasing visual element to a room. Wallpaper not only brings additional color, but new textures, and can reflect light differently than painted ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

It was nicely appropriate that one of the ovations on first night should be for conductor Jakub Hrusa, who was making his maiden appearance as the new music director of the Royal Opera House.

‘We’ve done quite a lot of sites now where you wouldn’t expect a house to go,' Burges points out. Clare Dowdy is a London-based freelance design and architecture journalist who has written for titles ...

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

the impact he gets from the house orchestra is seared on the memory. The composer's first great score has its problems in a not always clear orchestration – later he went for extremes, which pose ...

This revival of Janáček’s earliest operatic masterpiece marks the first occasion on which Jakub Hrůša has conducted the Royal Opera following the announcement of his appointment as Antonio ...

If you've ever tried to remove old wallpaper from a house, you know how challenging it is to peel the paper and remaining glue from the walls. Peel-and-stick wallpaper pulls off of the wall easily and ...

Simple, straightforward and honest, Cabin House is modernism at its most modest and accessible. Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and ...