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Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonBen Duke brings fresh life to the classics again with deft movement between tragedy and comedy

With his company Lost Dog, choreographer Ben Duke mines humour and desperation from the darkest of Greek tragedies

Lost Dog has a reputation for taking sideways looks at classic tales and taking them into unlikely spaces, but might an interrogation of the murderous Medea in the bowels of the Royal Opera House prove a step too far?

The soprano on starring in an opera adaptation of the much-loved film, being at the ENO when its funding was cut and what it feels like on stage when audiences boo

Contemporary resonances abound in this revival of Benjamin Britten’s opera

The Shakespeare North Trust has been also funded

Singer Bryn Terfel starts petition after arts council removes English National Opera’s funding unless it moves

Questions about the politics of support for the arts have always been fraught and the recent announcement about Arts Council England’s latest funding round is no exception. At the heart of the current controversy is the movement of millions of pounds away from key London organisations to the regions. This…

Members of the audience shushed the heckler who left soon afterwards and gave schoolboy Malakai M Bayoh an ovation as he finished

An endlessly inventive staging of Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera