‘I love my day job. Why would I want to change sides?’ Singer Danielle de Niese on directing her first opera

Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is in the soprano’s DNA, but she’s never thought about directing it. Creating her own production has been daunting and fascinating – and her son’s building blocks even help ...

This may now be the finest opera house in Britain – and here’s the proof

Garsington Opera’s season has opened with La traviata, one of Verdi’s middle-period operas (he was not quite 40 at its first ...