From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: … My pick of the week may appear esoteric. It comes from Ludwigshafen in western Germany and is performed by the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz with its British chief […]
She was half-French, half-Italian, spoke six languages and sang in twice as many. The mega-hits of Caterina Valente, who has died in Switzerland at 93, came mostly in the 1950s. She made her breakthrough in […]
Franz Welser-Möst has pulled out of the opening of the new Magic Flute, directed by Barbora Horakova, at the end of this month. A statement from Staatsoper director Bogdan Roscic reads: ‘After successful immunotherapy, unexpected […]