"We just literally staged the last scene of the play", Linnea Berthelsen says, apologising for running a few minutes late. A week or so out from her London stage debut...

Whilst TD Moyo tells me that she found her way to opera by accident, it was a pretty auspicious accident. She was asked to join a directing programme at London's...

It is winter in Rio de Janeiro, which is to say it is 29 degrees. Armando Babaioff appears on my screen laughing about the two days this year he has...

Paolo Fantin is having a rather spectacular year. In February, he designed the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, and this July will reveal his stage for the legendary...

An encounter with the costume sketches of Rococo artist François Boucher in the Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra (Paris Opera Library) shifted Camille Assaf’s path from theory (philosophy) to practice (design): “At...

Stage design is often a hidden art. While audiences marvel at the final grand result of an opera, few realize the months of drafting, sculpting, and building work that happen...

At nineteen, the Royal Central student Leo Simpe-Asante can already list his work as a composer, poet, playwright, and actor on his resume. He has been writing plays and musicals...

Whether she is transforming actors into neon-hued trolls or mechanical dolls, the Berlin-based costume designer Teresa Vergho views the human body as a site of radical construction. Having collaborated with...

For over two decades, the Belgian set and exhibition designer Sabine Theunissen has been the close collaborator of renowned South African artist William Kentridge. While his expansive practice wanders across...

From years spent working for John Galliano during his Christian Dior reign, to the hallowed stages of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Danish Ballet, Danish designer Anja Vang...