Physionotraces: galerie de portraits, de la Révolution à l’Empire
A diminutive yet potent display tracing the development of a revolutionary form of portraiture.
L’Olimpiade
More productions of L'Olimpiade in this Olympic year, making a good case for opera seria.
Playing, Learning, Flirting: Printed Board Games from Eighteenth-Century France
The long eighteenth century, as told via the revealing medium of the board game.
Music in Oxford
Two outstanding musical events, both with connections to New College.
Pieces of Wedgwood
A compact but illuminating reminder of Wedgwood’s Australian connection.
Le Nozze di Figaro
A setting of Mozart's beloved opera in the swinging sixties, with mixed results.
Jane Austen’s Bookshop – An Exhibition
Chawton House charms with an exhibition that brings the thriving network of eighteenth-century regional print culture back to life.
The English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland
This exciting exhibition about a defining event in Grand Tour history delivers the treasures of thorough archival research.
Handel’s Orlando
Handel's bizarre opera receives an equally bizarre postmodern staging, but a fine musical rendition too.
1740, un Abrégé du Monde
This perfectly formed exhibition captures the essence of how knowledge was visualised in the age of the encyclopaedia.