The Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov, a vocal supporter of his president’s wars, has issued a statement on social media following his latest disappearance from a foreign stage: Cancellation of Don Carlo and Attila in Napoli […]
The Alastair Macaulay Review this week comes from last night’s world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen at Covent Garden. Festen 2025.ii.12 by Alastair Macaulay How does the same harrowing drama succeed in several different […]
In The Bleak Midwinter – Wigmore Hall Why is this the world’s most popular Christmas carol? Its message (thanks to Christina Rosetti) is miserable and, what’s more, inaccurate. Assuming that Jesus was in fact born in […]