Needless to say, the music does not escape an extraordinary and cacophonous transformation. The second act of Phaedra is vital: alive with the real, recorded sounds of the cicada of his Italian garden ...

Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra – a work he called a cantata but which is more like sung psychodrama – uses the poet Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre to explore the fallout from the character ...

God, it's good to have the Linbury back. The reopening of the Royal Opera House's second, smaller space last December after a lengthy redesign brought with it all kinds of possibilities. Wriggling ...

Deborah Warner’s Phaedra was first presented as part of the 4/4 programme on the Main Stage in October 2020, with British mezzo-soprano Christine Rice performing the title role. Rice reprises the role ...

Ever since Kim Brandstrup winningly choreographed Deborah Warner’s mesmerising English National Opera production of Death in Venice in 2007, the two of them have worked on Benjamin Britten projects ...