Hopes & Fears, Arcola Outside, stage review: ‘Beauty buried in pain’
An opera that faces up to its difficult subject matter ‘all pipes blasting’
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From Russia to Watford: OperaUpClose to perform restaged, rewritten Tchaikovsky libretto in Arcola show
We speak to the Olivier Award-winning lyricist Robin Norton-Hale about the company’s unique take on Eugene Onegin
Arcola, The Marriage of Kim K review: ‘it isn’t going to break the internet’
This new, zeitgeisty production – the opener of the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn opera season – is packed with ideas that sometimes pay off, but is ultimately noisy and confused
Grimeborn Festival, Arcola, review: ‘excellent programme of rarities and standards’
Opera gets back to its experimental roots at the Arcola’s annual festival
Wilde Wilde East – The Importance of Being Earnest comes to the Barbican
An operatic adaptation of one of the most celebrated comedies in the English language comes to the Barbican this month
Sex Workers Opera: raising marginalised voices and challenging sterotypes
Escorts, strippers and webcam performers are among the cast of Arcola production opening next week
Dalston's Grimeborn festival is underway
It’s the time of the season for alternative opera at the Arcola with annual Grimeborn festival
Lore Lixenberg: a breath of fresh aria
The Stoke Newington opera singer who blurs the boundary between composition and performance
Hackney duo to stage experimental opera Room of Worlds
William Morris and a work of early feminist fiction are the inspirations for contemporary chamber opera featuring electronics and video
Fernando Messulam: the restaurant owner with a 'steak' in opera
Restaurant manager and tenor Fernando Messulam indulges his passion for music by holding monthly opera night
Carousel- review
Opera North’s Carousel is an enjoyable, if hardly revolutionary version of the classic musical
Grimeborn 2012 – an alternative festival of opera
This year, the Arcola’s unconventional musical theatre and opera festival will be held in the Tent
Going for Rhinegold
The Yard Theatre hosts an adrenaline-fuelled, modern reworking of Wagner’s Ring Cycle masterpiece
Confucius and Chinese folk tales form Hackney childrens’ opera
Hackney Music Development Trust discuss their latest project with Matt Hanley