... however, is more prosaic and much more remarkable. In 1951, an idea thrown out by Sir Compton Mackenzie was translated by Dr. Tom Walsh into a handful of performances of Balfe's The Rose of Castile in the tiny Theatre Royal. This year, twenty-one years later ...

... Though the opera is often played as pure comedy, the risks faced by 18th-century travellers in the Mediterranean were real. Tom Walsh has told us that a whole Maltese opera company was captured by an Algerian corsair in 1782 and taken into slavery. Mr Wood's ...

... Though the opera is often played as pure comedy, the risks faced by 18th-century travellers in the Mediterranean were real. Tom Walsh has told us that a whole Maltese opera company was captured by an Algerian corsair in 1782 and taken into slavery. Mr Wood's ...