The creations of Paul Brown, who died last year, will star in ENO’s new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic If the audience laughs out loud at a new London Coliseum production of Iolanthe, ...

Following a series of successful hits which have cemented the English National Opera’s (ENO) place as a major home for Gilbert & Sullivan’s works, Cal McCrystal’s Iolanthe returns to the London ...

Part pantomime, part political satire, the ENO’s joyful production is a surreal collision between the world of the fairies and the House of Lords The English National Opera’s latest production of ...

He’s worked with James Corden, Spider-Man and Paddington, now Cal McCrystal is directing Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe for the ENO and he’s ‘stuffing it with jokes’, he tells George Hall Cal ...

ASKING a director of hit film or theatre to have a go at operas is a bit of a risky strategy. So is putting on Gilbert and Sullivan in a modern opera house. The latest production by the English ...

English National Opera revives Cal McCrystal’s zany, irreverent staging of this Gilbert and Sullivan classic, that has us rolling in the aisles This was its first revival – I didn’t see it then, so ...

Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The Telegraph between 1995 and 2020. He is the author of several books of cultural history including Romantic Affinities, Paris ...

ASKING a director of hit film or theatre to have a go at operas is a bit of a risky strategy. So is putting on Gilbert and Sullivan in a modern opera house. The latest production by the English ...