Then enterprising siooloist Charles Castleman has entrusted his 1707 ‘Marquis de Champeaux’ Stradivarius violin to the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels. Castleman came fifth in the Queen Elisabeth competition in 1963 and maintained a […]
The Royal Opera’s “Jenufa” By Alastair Macaulay Leoš Janáćek’s opera “Jenůfa” – one of the great works of the human spirit – takes a tragic situation, deepens it, and then transcends it. The unmarried Jenůfa […]