opera – Regular Marvels

Reflecting on ‘El Cabaret de la Gata’

A long journey needs resting points It is a surprise, in my sixties, to find myself working on opera, as

As the pandemic recedes—or perhaps becomes normalised—it is becoming hard to recall the strangeness of those lockdown months, and the

It’s just over two years since I met the people involved in the Traction co-creation opera projects, in Donostia, at

For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is

There are moments in every good community art project when you watch, suspended between wonder and terror, as it takes

In March, I posted a question on Twitter about co-creation. What do artists mean by ‘co-creation’? I’m writing about the

Ten days ago, at home in France, I watched a live stream of a performance happening in Portugal. Nós. Vocês. Toda

When the Traction project was conceived, its broad aim of exploring how digital technology might reconnect opera with contemporary European

The public health measures taken to slow down the Covid-19 pandemic have had a devastating effect on millions of businesses