Written by Francisco Salazar March 2, 2026 The Olivier Awards have announced the recipients of the award for Outstanding Contribution Award and Industry Recognition Award. The awards body announced that Danielle de Niese will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Opera Award for her distinctive career, blending operatic credibility with musical theatre style. Meanwhile, Sir Wayne...
Written by Alex Wood February 24, 2026 The Olivier Awards with Cunard have announced the recipients of this year’s Outstanding Contribution to Dance, Outstanding Contribution to Opera and Industry Recognition Awards, ahead of the ceremony’s 50th anniversary celebrations in April. Choreographer and director Wayne McGregor will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Dance Award. McGregor has...
Written by Planet Hugill February 23, 2026 Wild Arts, the Essex-based musical charity headed by Orlando Jopling, has a busy summer ahead. Their new production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro is not only set to be performed at over 20 venues across the south of England but the production will be directed by soprano...
Written by Andrew Connal February 16, 2026 Wow! A supercharged Valentine’s votive: a world-class orchestra and our local Diva Deliziosa – obviously musically top-rate, flawless indeed, although I did wonder about the microphone. Does a voice that can fill any opera house really need amplification? Well, yes if it allows her to croon, and smooch,...
Written by Barry Millington February 20, 2026 The eponymous fake utopia in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is created because a discontented, disenfranchised populace finds “no harmony, no contentment”. Mahagonny is a promised land with beer and sex apparently freely on tap, a place where you...
