What were English National Opera chiefs thinking when they approved a run of Instagram posts that reduce the art form to puerile caricature? The posts are neither funny nor intelligent. Several singers are expressing rage. […]
Professor Robert Eschbach has some fresh insights for us about the recently auctioned Stradivarius violin that once belonged the the formidable Joseph Joachim. Joseph Joachim was the grandson of the internationally prominent wool merchant […]
The Royal Opera in Stockholm has a new artistic director, replacing Michael Cavanagh, who died suddenly in March. His successor is Tobias Theorell, presently in the same job at Stockholm’s secondary Folkoperan. The post […]