Ellen Kent's Nabucco set Friday night off with a bang - coloured lights and dry ice transforming the New Theatre's stage into a scene from Ancient Jerusalem. This opera, Verdi's first smash hit, tells ...

Ellen Kent never does anything by halves. So when she brings her current repertoire of three operas — Rigoletto, La Traviata and Madama Butterfly — to Oxford next week, you can expect everything to be ...