LEO DOULTON

This blog is part of a series on how I came to write Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (tickets available now!). If you want to read the...

This blog is part of a series on how I came to write Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (tickets available now!). If you want to read the...

Introduction You may have seen the news of the failure of the ‘Festival of Brexit’, at over £500 subsidy per head for a deeply unpopular...

After… four years of work, give or take, Come Bargain With Uncanny Things has reached its final R&D phase, ahead of a pilot run in late...

I'm delighted to have been one of the recipients of this year's Opera Awards Foundation Bursary, alongside some excellent people. Most...

A plausible scenario for the near future The climate crisis has continued on its current course, with rising sea levels and regular...

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....

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...

An empty white void. Three figures walk in - Ortrud the Operator, Cal the Conductor, and Dancing Dave. Ortrud wears a grungy hoodie and...

Paul Shapera is (probably) the most prolific opera composer of the 21st century. He’s also the one my operatic peers are least likely to...

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

This is the seventh in a seven-part sequence of blogs going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...

This is the fifth in a seven-part sequence of blogs going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...

This is the fifth in a seven-part sequence of blogs going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...

This is the fourth in a seven-part sequence of blogs going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...

This is the third in a seven-part sequence of blogs going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...

This is the second in a seven-part sequence of essays going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...

This is the first of a seven-part sequence of essays going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...

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...