An overly simplified comparison of genre, when distinguishing between opera and musical theater, looks at the ratio of words to music. It claims that opera is “sung through” while musicals rely on ...

Thurs, Nov 12 at 7:30pm Sat, Nov 14 at 2:00pm Chelsea Opera revives its 2010 production of Glory Denied, an opera by composer/librettist Tom Cipullo, based on the oral biography of Tom Philpott, tell ...

I’d hoped to find more finesse, and more obvious co-ordination with the singers, than we got from veteran Anthony Negus; from previous encounters, it’s clear that the semi-professional Chelsea Opera ...

Thanks to supertitles it wasn’t necessary to consult programme synopsis or the libretto COG always makes available. As usual in Italian opera from the first half of the 19th century, the soprano and ...