Handel’s historical oratorio Theodora is one of his most sublime works. And the fact that Katie Mitchell’s new production is brandished as state-of-the-art feminism, boasting two top-of-the-range pole ...

A rehearsal room in Opera Australia's Surry Hills headquarters. Bass-baritone Andrew Collis is standing on a table glowering at his castmates. He has a prop gun in his hand. He looks threatening. But ...

Katie Mitchell's staging of Handel's great oratorio relocates it from the fourth-century to a bleak modern embassy – with remarkable results Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and ...

One might wonder why we’ve had to wait just over 270 years for Handel’s Theodora to return to Covent Garden. But return it has, in a spellbindingly original, emotionally shattering staging by Katie ...

Back in 2018 Jonathan Cohen and his period group Arcangelo brought Theodora to the Proms. Distant and correct in the cavernous Royal Albert Hall, it never quite caught fire. Five years on and Cohen ...

The brave Christian noblewoman Theodora is arrested and thrown into prison because she refuses to honour the Emperor, and threatened with a fate worse than death – as a sex worker for the President ...

It comes with a health warning, but Katie Mitchell’s perceptive, largely cogent staging of this rarely seen work, performed by a committed cast, allows Handel’s genius to shine through The wry ...

Katie Mitchell’s new production of Handel’s Theodora comes bristling with warnings of sexual violence and exploitation. It was also recently revealed that the production team had availed themselves of ...

Soprano Julia Bullock as Theodora in Katie Mitchell’s production at the Royal Opera House (Camilla Greenwell) ...