Ruth Leon recommends… Rembrandt: Restoring a Masterpiece

The Russian mezzo Ekaterina Gubanova has missed too many rehearsals with illness to take part in Tristan und Isolde, the festival has announced. She will be replaced as Brangäne by Christa Mayer. It is still […]

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 […]

Bolshoi goers have been complaining on Russian social media about huge proce increases at the Bolshoi since Valery Gergiev was granted supreme power last year by Vladimir Putin. A good seat in the stalls has […]