On today’s Telegraph op-ed page I write about the harm inflicted by Covent Garden’s CEO Alex Beard on those seeking to end the war in Gaza. Among other things, I argue: …Beard’s sanction on Israeli […]
When the former opera chief of Geneva and Paris died in May, followed days later by his husband, the couple were found to own an unknown drawing by Paul Verlaine of the poet Arthur Rimbaud. […]
The 2025 Fanny Mendelssohn Composition Prize has been awarded to a 29-year-old Hungarian, Abigél Varga. She receives 10,000 euros and a commission to compose a chamber music work for zither and trumpet. Since the announcement […]