Last Updated on February 18, 2025 Mary’s stage rule is as short as her real one The rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots ...

This staging of the final part of Wagner’s Ring cycle, which has been stripped to its essence in drama and music, has great ...

Genius doesn't always tally with equal opportunities, to paraphrase Doris Lessing. Opera houses have a duty to put on new ...

And so to the final new production of English National Opera’s season; Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Stewart Laing and ...

Back in the 1970s, before neglect of women composers was recognised as an urgent issue (with resultant automatic entry to the ...

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel Sunset Song was recently dropped as a set text on the Higher English syllabus. Now the 1971 ...

Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February ...

A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been ...

After retirement from the film industry after 42 years as a set decorator on the West Coast, Mary Olivia McIntosh was able to ...

Paintings of senior politicians and royalty at No 11 axed in favour of artworks depicting social distancing and Covid anxiety ...