The new production at Arena di Verona has been totally detached from Verdi’s story of Jewish exiles in Babylon. The costumes are space suits, the stage set looks like a post-modern, peripheral bus terminus and […]
The cellist has been given the all-clear by his doctors, six months after major surgery. He will give a thanksgiving concert in Lucerne on January 16 with longterm besties Martha Argerich and Janine Jansen. ‘And […]
The soprano Denise Dupleix, whose death is reported today, burst onto the scene at Tours in 1950 with the Bell Song from Lakmé. For the next four decades she was a high-note star in both […]