' It's about old men who get it wrong when they have power and influence – and then get into a mess. That's the reason I'm doing this opera." Alexander Goehr is telling me about Promised End, his new ...

Can Shakespeare’s epic “King Lear” find new life as an opera set in a present-day care center for the mentally afflicted? Or, even more provocatively, as an opera in which Lear is re-cast as a female ...

This year’s Grange Festival will feature King Lear with a difference – the cast is made up of opera stars who won’t sing a note. But are there any parallels to working on an opera? George Hall gets ...

"Where am I? Is it day? I don’t know what to say. Are these hands mine? How I long to know who I am!" - Lear, Partie II, scène 6 Berlioz wrote nothing more than an overture to Shakespeare’s King Lear.

This Feb. 1978 black-and-white handout photo provided by the Kennedy Center shows, from left, Evelyn Lear as Irina Arkadina, Patricia Wells as Masha, and Evelyn Petros as Nina in Pastieri’s The ...

Yet I must confess I found it hard to warm to the National Changgeuk Company of Korea’s reimagining of King Lear. That’s not to deny that this production often packs a colossal emotional punch, ...

This Feb. 1978 black-and-white handout photo provided by the Kennedy Center shows, from left, Evelyn Lear as Irina Arkadina, Patricia Wells as Masha, and Evelyn Petros as Nina in Pastieri’s The ...