"Honourably" means, from director Olivia Fuchs's perspective, tackling head-on the distasteful plot in which a girl young enough still to be playing with dollies is drugged and carted off by a ...
None is more abused than the heroine of Iris, Pietro Mascagni’s rarely performed tragedy about an innocent Japanese girl abducted into a brothel and driven to commit suicide. Premiered in 1898, six ...
Mascagni is something of a speciality at Opera Holland Park, where productions of L’amico Fritz, Zanetto and Cavalleria rusticana have appeared in recent years. The rarely performed Iris, however, has ...