There is nothing like a nicely vague concept to get the brain into a twizzle at the start of an…

David Pountney’s recent opera productions display a near Buddhist philosophy of reincarnation, the continuance of the spirit, the revolution of…

  The statement is often made that Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is among one of the most influential operas in history…

Based on Maeterlinck’s now-obscure Symbolist play of the same name, Debussy’s only full-length opera Pelléas et Mélisande is a sensuously…