Donizetti’s The Siege of Calais is the strongest of the three works in English Touring Opera’s current season. Historical and musical purists may object to director James Conway's jettisoning the ...

The brave and patriotic Frenchmen see only the prospect of starvation and death when the English commander offers them a choice: either surrender six of your leaders to be made an example of by a ...

We could be in Iraq today, or Ukraine tomorrow, as a besieged community reaches the tipping point between starvation and surrender. Director James Conway has conceived the most persuasive of updatings ...