For one of the best-known and most frequently staged of Verdi’s opera, Rigoletto can prove at times quite frustrating. There is a…

I’m a big fan of John Waters’ film Hairspray. I remember well going to see it on its release in…

  Even for Puccini lovers, Il Trittico is somewhat of a curiosity. This collection of three one-act operas was debuted in 1918…

A national icon, playing a national icon, about a national icon can make for some heavy adulation. I suspect some…

**** I have, as I am sure many other people also do, a deep-seated horror of hospitals. Hospitals are, as…

Wales Millennium Centre has announced the first confirmed acts for LLAIS (9–13 October 2024). Artists incldue Cate Le Bon, South…

  ★★★     It could not have been more apt for this concert that Mozart was struggling to make…

****   I was lucky enough to visit New York earlier this year and to visit Ground Zero. This made…

Alyn Hawke is resident dierctor of Come from Away which is at Wales Millennium Centre from  April 2-6, 2024. Alyn…

  This is rather an odd show that cannot make its mind up if it is a love story with…