There has been a muted response to the death this week of the eminent soprano Edith Mathis, Mozart star of the Karajan years at the Vienna Opera and, later on, one of the most exquisite […]
The Rachmaninoff Conservatory of Paris, founded in 1923 by the exiled Fyodor Chaliapin and Alexander Glazunov, has inaugurated a statue of its namesake. The sculptor is Besik Solomonashvili and the image looks more like FDR […]
The soprano Lesley Garrett, 70 in April, has been contemplating retirement on the How To Be 60 podcast: ‘My husband says I’m only at my happiest when I’m singing. He says he worries about my […]