Martha Argerich, 83 today, plays Prokofiev in Hiroshima

The Russian cellist Nina Kotova lost her grip at IMG Artists when its co-woner, her husband Barrett Wissman, was ousted by his Russian partner Alexander Shustorovich. No-one grieved for Wissman, a self-confessed fraudster. But Kotova, […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I am a graduate student and teach lessons as a part of my scholarship. One of my students just doesn’t practice. It’s incredibly obvious. Then she gives me […]

The South African soprano Elza van den Heever, presently in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Met, has let it be known on social media that she’s singing Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Bayreuth […]