Covid-sick Kaufmann cancels Paris

The American mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Russo, who sang Fricka in Fulham Opera’s Ring cycle, has died of cancer. She was cantor and soloist at Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church in Greenwich, Ct., for 25 years. The […]

Sienna It was a bustling beacon of commerce and culture, but how exactly did 14th-century Siena revolutionise painting form and style? Filmed on location, in this enthralling video, watch as curators, local experts and artists […]

The independent minded theatre director Wolfgang Engel has died at 81. He made his name internationally with a Dresden production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, refusing the East German state prize as a mark […]