Ian Burton

With this third opera of his, Leoš Janáček made his breakthrough as composer for the music theatre. The story of Jenůfa...

Richard III was the first political criminal, before Macbeth,whom Shakespeare chose to portray as a tragic hero. The hunchbackedking is fascinated by...

Georg Friedrich Händel wrote  Semele  after his Italian operas, during a period when the majority of his compositions were oratorios. The...

In a similar vein to Verdi, Puccini reveals an incredible love for renewal at the end of his life. Turandot ,...

Madame Butterfly is the drama of a Japanese geisha who, in her love for a man from a foreign culture, exchanges her...