When David Freeman's in-the-round production of Carmen returns to the Royal Albert Hall in February, another return will happen simultaneously: that of the promoter Raymond Gubbay. Battered and ...

The UK's newest opera company, Savoy Opera, aims to take the art form to a new audience, attracting "opera virgins" with the lure of cheap tickets - some as low as a tenner. The new London company, ...

It was a hugely audacious scheme: to launch a third opera house in London's West End, without a penny of public subsidy and with the most expensive seat in the house at the piffling sum (by operatic ...

An opera company launched yesterday by the impresario Raymond Gubbay hopes to attract new audiences to the genre by staging popular classics with low-price tickets. The team behind the new venture, ...

It was, according to the Evening Standard, "the biggest shake-up the subsidised arts have ever faced." There were editorials in the Times and Guardian and items on the Today programme. And what was ...

Opera is an acquired taste, right? Isn't it a bizarre cocktail of inflated prices, overweight singers in outrageous costumes and a snooty, superior audience? Well no, not necessarily. At least, this ...