Needless to say, the music does not escape an extraordinary and cacophonous transformation. The second act of Phaedra is vital: alive with the real, recorded sounds of the cicada of his Italian garden ...

Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra – a work he called a cantata but which is more like sung psychodrama – uses the poet Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre to explore the fallout from the character ...

2 HAIRSPRAY Will Embark on a New UK and Ireland Tour in 2027 Deborah Warner has staged a range of works performed by The Royal Opera, including the Olivier-award nominated Peter Grimes (2022) and ...

God, it's good to have the Linbury back. The reopening of the Royal Opera House's second, smaller space last December after a lengthy redesign brought with it all kinds of possibilities. Wriggling ...

Ever since Kim Brandstrup winningly choreographed Deborah Warner’s mesmerising English National Opera production of Death in Venice in 2007, the two of them have worked on Benjamin Britten projects ...