The Roman emperor Caligula is best known for making his horse a senator, but the figure portrayed in Albert Camus’s early play ‘Caligula’ had an over-arching and terrible significance. Addicted to ...

Of all the productions of modern works championed by the English National Opera in recent years, this production of Caligula struck me as the most gripping ...

Caligula is a portrait of a tremendous soul in terrible crisis. In Albert Camus’s Caligula, Detlev Glanert has found a gargantuan character – a man whose dreams become his society’s nightmares. After ...

Successful new operas are so rare that they deserve special fanfare. Detlev Glanert, though, is among the most experienced composers alive, renowned not as an iconoclast but for well-crafted works ...

The Eden Cinemas will be screening the Ballet Caligula live from the National Opera House in Paris, on 8 February at 7.30pm. Caligula will follow the three successful productions already screened at ...

Who was the naughtiest Roman emperor of them all? I'd nominate Elagabalus, but Caligula runs a close second. Albert Camus made him the subject of a 1938 play, intending to remind the audience of ...

Emperor Caligula was widely considered one of the maddest, baddest of the Roman dictators. Based on Albert Camus’ play, Detlev Glanert’s opera explores the tyranny and consequences of such a regime ...