LEO DOULTON

The Perfect Opera is a very silly show. If you just want to come and enjoy a hiphop foxtrot operatic sketch comedy show, we'd love to...

As I prepare for The Uncanny Things Trilogy ,   I don’t think I’m the first writer/director/performer to struggle with this. But I’d...

There are, give or take, four weeks to go until The Uncanny Things Trilogy   opens at COLAB Tower, just of Southwark Bridge, and this...

This is a weird blog to write. The crowdfunder finishes in five days, and a blur of frantic activity will end (yes! Get playful games!...

A thing that happens when you make a show is that, suddenly, a lot of people want to be your friend, and think you’re really cool. This...

What’s the most welcome you’ve ever felt in an interactive show? It’s a big question, and partly depends on the person, and partly on the...

Almost any good show relies on its characters. More particularly, they rely on characters in relationship with each other. In interactive...

There are those who, bizarrely, cannot see inside my mind to know what happens in each part of the Come Bargain  trilogy. So I might as...

Amid everything else in the world, I (and the Virtually Opera team) have just started crowdfunding for Come Bargain With Uncanny...

I have just attended my first Ring Cycle, assisting on Amy Lane’s Die Walküre. It was an extraordinary experience, with 14.5 hours of...

This is, perhaps, my greatest (only) contribution to the field of Wagner studies. The essential question of: Could you run a D&D campaign...

At the end of 2022, I wrote A Plan For 2023. In it, I made a simple statement: that I had lost my youthful habit of regular experimental...

I was reading a Peter Brook speech on opera in which he makes the point that when looking at opera, we often find ourselves dealing with...

This may make more sense after reading the similarly-broad previous blog post on a similar topic. I am 90% sure I’ve said some of this...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an opera company must want new audiences. The question is why. Here’s a few expanded...

An ongoing dream of mine is to adapt a Terry Pratchett book into an opera. Because I love opera (with caveats) and I love Terry Pratchett...

Even in my lifetime, there’s been a shift in what people wear to the opera. Specifically, from ‘formal’ clothing to a greater acceptance...

I am an opera maker, and realise the terrible truth: opera needs money, desperately, all the time. Let us assume that the chance the next...

If I have a style (which, alas, I increasingly do as I stagnate away from being a young artist, and get too few opportunities to...

CW: Description violence (operatic/Batman-level), blood transfusion Across the years, as someone in the circle of the excellent Chloe...