These days I approach the premiere of a new opera with a heavy tread. Will it even have singing? a story? characters? Operas performed by...

Appropriately, much civic pride was in evidence at The Civic, Barnsley’s nifty theatre space in the middle of town, at a performance of...

Thanks to a cordial invitation from Barnsley-based composer Helen Madden, I was able to visit this iconic Yorkshire town for the first...