LEO DOULTON

I am a twin. A few days ago, the good twin (Mimi) posted this: It’s a very sensible thread, and I’d encourage you to read it....

The other day I put up a Twitter poll, hoping to get a sense from a few friends about a question I’ve been pondering for a while: Over...

Prologue I am at times, an academic, and one of my specialisms is in the aesthetic philosophy of opera (in short, the ways people justify...

Like most England-based artists, I’ve made a number of applications to Arts Council England (ACE) for money. They’ve just changed the...

About a fortnight ago, two very clever people posted Tweets bemoaning the lack of faith of sector leaders in modern (or, at least, 1945)...

What’s the best way to do auditions? Auditions suck. There’s no feeling like that of sending an email to say no to someone talented who’s...

Once upon a time - all good stories begin with once upon a time - there was a great performer by the name of Pagliacci. Pagliacci had the...

This will make a lot more sense if you've read the first part here. At first, I thought I’d do this via the Marxian models I tend to use....

At a the latest Devoted and Disgruntled conference, I called a session asking for ideas for a utopian opera festival. One thing that...

Lockdown has caused a rash of online opera, so I thought I'd write a bit about my experiences with opera for film - whether researching...

I said I’d do a blog about the Offie finalists for 2019, so I will. I had the concept for, translated, and directed one of the nominees...

Sometimes I write blogs to clarify my thoughts about matters of theatrical theory and practice. Today I'm doing it because tomorrow is my...