Saariaho’s delusions live on

The culture minister has renewed Volksoper chief Lotte de Beer by five years to 2032. The Dutchwoman, 42, has managed a smooth transition of music directors, from Omer Meir Wellber to Ben Glassberg, and has […]

A Slippedisc subscriber has written to Pope Leo, proposing the beatification of the Austrian composer. Why not? Bruckner was Catholic,lived a blameless life and wrote screeds of sonorous solemnities for the mother Church. Drop a […]

The windy old house in Lowestoft where Benjamin Britten was born and spent his childhood has been put up for sale at around £800,000. It has served for the past two decades as a seaview […]