The composer Thomas Hertel, former music director of Dresden State Theatre, died on Monday after a long illness. Hertel, who was 73, suffered restrictions under Communism and left for West Germany in 1985, finding work […]
In a sign he is winding down his future availability for opera engagements, the German tenor has announced an end to his career-long representation by the New York firm of Zemsky/Green. Kaufmann’s personal manager Bruce […]
Our resident critic Alastair Macaulay is spending most of his summer at the Royal Albert Hall: by Alastair Macaulay Let’s hear it for the term “semi-staged”! On Monday 1 September, English National Opera presented Shostakovich’s […]