La Bohème

January 2013

Opera

The story is set in Paris in the period around 1830. Act 1 - In the bohemians' garret, Christmas eve Marcello is painting while his friend, Rodolfo, a poet,  gazes…

Why Opera?

February 2008

General

Opera is an amazing art form – possibly the supreme art form, but what exactly is opera? First and foremost, it is the musical enactment of drama, so the…

Arabian opera nights

November 2007

Performance

Architecture and opera came together at the end—and in the aftermath—of Frank Lloyd Wright’s career, but not in the manner that America’s most famous architect might have envisaged. Nor…

Opera's hot in Chile

November 2007

Other

Santiago’s Teatro Municipal—one of the great opera houses of South America—celebrates its 150th anniversary this month. But the performance on 17 September 1857 of Verdi’s Ernani was by…