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Getting a peak into opera costumier Hannah Oellinger’s mind is a wondrous thing. In this conversation with Melodrama she shares how her imagination is fed by movie costumes (she shouts-out Eiko Ishioka), museum catalogues, fairy tales, Elsa Schiaparelli’s enduring wit, the Met’s Camp exhibition and…
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The Ruffled Universe of Costumier Hannah Oellinger
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February 11, 2026
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RESTRICTED VIEW #2
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A monthly review of the (London) Drama.
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February 7, 2026
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“Oh—you’re still playing the clarinet?” Spotlight On Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect
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The young Armenian-American clarinetist Anoush Pogossian is at the start of her career, thinking carefully about who classical music is for. She is a fellow with Ensemble Connect which brings emerging classical musicians into Carnegie Hall and asks them to do more than perform: teach,…
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February 4, 2026
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The Ruffled Universe of Costumier Hannah Oellinger
Read
Getting a peak into opera costumier Hannah Oellinger’s mind is a wondrous thing. In this conversation with Melodrama she shares how her imagination is fed by movie costumes (she shouts-out Eiko Ishioka), museum catalogues, fairy tales, Elsa Schiaparelli’s enduring wit, the Met’s Camp exhibition and…
Date
February 11, 2026
Read
6 min. read
02
RESTRICTED VIEW #2
Read
A monthly review of the (London) Drama.
Date
February 7, 2026
Read
3 min. read
03
“Oh—you’re still playing the clarinet?” Spotlight On Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect
Read
The young Armenian-American clarinetist Anoush Pogossian is at the start of her career, thinking carefully about who classical music is for. She is a fellow with Ensemble Connect which brings emerging classical musicians into Carnegie Hall and asks them to do more than perform: teach,…
Date
February 4, 2026
Read
2 min. read
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The Ruffled Universe of Costumier Hannah Oellinger
6 min. read
Getting a peak into opera costumier Hannah Oellinger’s mind is a wondrous thing. In this conversation with Melodrama she shares how her imagination is fed by movie costumes (she shouts-out…
“Oh—you’re still playing the clarinet?” Spotlight On Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect
2 min. read
The young Armenian-American clarinetist Anoush Pogossian is at the start of her career, thinking carefully about who classical music is for. She is a fellow with Ensemble Connect which brings…
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Actor and practitioner Scott Shepherd has an “extreme‑sport attitude toward performance.” A beacon of The Wooster Group and Elevator Repair Service—experimental theatre ensembles known for their radical, form‑bending work—he has…
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Opera found Julieth Lozano Rolong by accident—and she followed it all the way from Colombian flash mobs to international stages. Calling in from rehearsals in Glasgow, the expressive and wildly…
KEENAN TYLER OLIPHANT ON THE PROCESS OF DIRECTING
Kate Purdum
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Keenan Tyler Oliphant is a theatre-maker and director from Cape Town, South Africa. Melodrama’s Kate Purdum recently spoke to Oliphant over the phone about his work on Nazareth Hassan’s Practice,…
SAM PRITCHARD ON INHERITED STORIES AND MYTHS OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN
Luke Bromage Henry
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Sam Pritchard is a theatre director and the former Associate Director at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Most recently, he directed Romans: A Novel, the latest play by award-winning…
