My violin kid wants to get to Harvard

This maelstrom of madness and delusional behaviour, which fills the plot of Un giorno di regno with twists and turns, is a rare thing: a comic opera by Verdi. Written by the composer in his mid-twenties […]

Review by Susan Hall: Davone Tines, a premier bass-baritone, channels a hero, Paul Robeson, at the Little Island Amphitheater in New York. Robeson had a rich, sonorous bass. Tines defines his own voice as a […]

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 […]