I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]
We have received depressing reports of the shrunken state of the Teatro Colon, South America’s foremost opera house. Next season contains just six operas, the following season five. The conductors – Beatrice Venezi and Zoe […]
I’m late to the party this year (the London Handel Festival), so it’s looking a bit like I might have to have a private party at home: this glorious, glorious disc of Handel Cantaras, early […]