Recent articles and interviews

The Big Smoke Variety Podcast ‘Opera is like boxing’ April 2025

Myths like this are there for us to see ourselves in, and we are all different – Planet Hugill March 2025

London Handel Festival Tales of Apollo and Hercules – March 2025

Tom on Radio 4s Front Row with Samira Ahmed on Schubert – BBC Sounds November 2023

The Essay – The Well-Tempered Clavier – Thomas Guthrie – BBC Sounds February 2022

‘Song recitals aren’t meant to be like this’: reinventing Schubert … with a puppet | Franz Schubert | The Guardian November 2021

Manifesto for a New Age of Live Performance September 2020

Opera Theatre Boxes September 2020

The Cusp interview by Hannah Nepilova September 2020

Robert Hugill interview 2 September 2020

Interview with Arwel Treharne Morgan June 2020

Robert Hugill interview 1 March 2020

The Cusp interview by Sam Taylor July 2019

BBC World Service ‘In the Studio’ on Semele with John Eliot Gardiner July 2019

Early Music Show, ‘Puppets in Opera’ BBC Radio 3 June 2019

Lecture for Festival of Ideas June 2019

Classical Post interview May 2019

Exploring Semele: Interview with Club de Opera April 2019

Interview with Agustin Blanco Bazàn, Mundo Clasico March 2019 – interview on Spanish debuts in 2019/20 with Semele and Aida

Concert stagings, puppets, Dido and theatricality – article published in Opera Now September 2018

Remembering and Representing Dido, Queen of Carthage: an interview for Opera Today with Claire Seymour September 2018

‘Staging humanity’: Final Note Interview with Fran Marshall September 2018 – general interview with special ref to Dido and Aeneas at the Barbican with AAM

The Flying Dutchman – an approach June 2018