Israel music chief dies at 40

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is mourning Charles Geyer, a member of the trumpet section from 1966 to 1978. He died in Houston, Texas, on June 11, 2024, following a long illness. He was 79. The […]

We understand that Jörg Golombek, a leading tenor in the Bayreuth Festival chorus, has sent an open letter to Katharina Wagner, accusing her of wrecking the institution. The key paragraph in a very long screed […]

Comedy had traditionally played little part in French opera. Lully soon eliminated comic episodes from his tragedies; from then until the appearance of this work, only a handful of operas had comic themes. The theme […]