Musicians who look like their pets: (6) Heifetz and the bodyguards

We have been notified of the death of Howard Crook, a lyric tenor from Rutherford, New Jersey, who became a staple of the early-music scene in Paris. He appeared in operas by Lully, Rameau, Haydn […]

Rossini’s thrilling epic, his final masterpiece with the world’s most famous overture, is his most ambitious, forward-looking and vocally challenging opera. Having become the rallying cry of the 1830 revolution in France, Rossini’s final opera […]

Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s new KenCen chief, has made his first programming announcement at a Conservative conference in Maryland, promising ‘a big, huge celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas.’ Grenell said: ‘How crazy […]