Has opera had enough grey concrete?

• Andrew Mellor
• Thursday, April 4, 2024

Why on earth am I being made to watch yet another operatic story told within grey concrete walls and under arid strip lighting?

If Taylor Swift was an opera composer…

• Satu Fox
• Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Exploring the singer’s parallels with Puccini and why the opera stage should utilise up-and-coming songwriters

If Manchester is to work, ENO needs to forget about London

• Andrew Mellor
• Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Am I rejoicing about the announcement from ENO that it will ‘move’ to Manchester? Yes and no...

'Week-in-week-out, I see examples of the ensemble system working brilliantly and failing miserably' | Opinion

• Andrew Mellor
• Tuesday, January 16, 2024

How do you solve a problem like ensemble system?

Folk won’t stop worrying about what to wear for opera, until we all stop talking about it | Opinion

• Andrew Mellor
• Monday, November 27, 2023

'It’s due partly to the class trappings that still linger around opera, partly to media representation of it and partly to the general aura that we, the opera crowd, tend to emit.'

Without tangible support, I fear that opera will truly wither | Harry Hyman

• Harry Hyman
• Thursday, October 26, 2023

In 2012 entrepreneur Harry Hyman set up the International Opera Awards with the aim of celebrating the art form and providing financial support to those in the profession. This year, more than ever,...

Conservatoires need cultural change to fix their misconduct crisis | Leah Broad

• Leah Broad
• Thursday, October 19, 2023

Scrapping one-to-one tuition might be an easy solution, but it’s not the right solution

Queer inheritance, politics and opera – writing 'Bermondsey, 1983'

• Robert Reid Allan
• Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Homophobia surrounded the 1983 Bermondsey by-election. Robert Reid Allan's true-story opera looks at this landmark in queer history and questions how far we have still to go

'In Europe, the industry treats "contemporary opera" as a problem' | Bill Bankes-Jones

• Bill Bankes-Jones
• Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Contemporary opera company Tête à Tête's Artistic Director on the future of new opera

'If we want people of all backgrounds to engage with opera, it needs to happen in places fully accessible by public transport' | Prompter – Andrew Mellor

• Andrew Mellor
• Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Life beyond the country house – one summer weekend in the broadsheets crystallises the stark crossroads facing British opera

Is it time to put the brakes on our intellectual superiority when talking about opera? | Andrew Mellor

• Andrew Mellor
• Friday, July 21, 2023

Where is contemporary opera? | Claire Jackson

• Claire Jackson
• Monday, June 26, 2023

‘It’s perplexing to see that the Royal Opera House's 2023-24 season doesn’t feature a single contemporary work on the main stage’

‘Opera’s future must be determined, and created, by those who make it and love it’ | Andrew Mellor

• Andrew Mellor
• Monday, June 26, 2023

A new column from Andrew Mellor, celebrating opera and prompting important discussions about the industry