On the first floor of a former Victorian silversmith’s atelier on Fleet Street, on the opening night of Frieze week, Ashley Saville Gallery is packed to the picture rails, and...

Children's theatre doesn't usually wiggle its way into the cultural conversation, which I think is a crying shame, because I believe, as many have argued, that the secret of genius...

"I didn't enter the world of opera," the French mezzo-soprano Katia Ledoux says with a contagious laugh. "The world of opera entered me." The culprit? A VHS tape of Francesco...

Whilst choreographers Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple have been making work together for over fifteen years, their new production marks the first time that they are doing so as their...

"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...