There’s a famous 1947 Cartier-Bresson photograph of Igor plus Puss which we can’t reproduce. The composer was feline in so many ways. And he composed The Owl and the Pussycat, a forerunner to theLloyd Webber […]
The Illinois Symphony Orchestra has signed Taichi Fukumura as music director, starting next month. He succeeds Ken Lam. Taichi Fukumura came second in the 2o23 Mahler conducting competition. He has received four Solti Foundation US […]
From Scottish Opera’s co-production with Holland Park Opera: ‘The Merry Widow is all about displaced people – originally, the fictitious Pontevedrians are displaced in France – so the world of Italian-American Mafia families finding their […]