Anna Lapwood is disengaged

Now the Federal Government has laid off all of its diversity staff, there will be orchestras up and down the USA who will want to be sacking their vice-presidents in charge of Diversity, Equity and […]

Comedy had traditionally played little part in French opera. Lully soon eliminated comic episodes from his tragedies; from then until the appearance of this work, only a handful of operas had comic themes. The theme […]

The Oper! awards, voted by a panel of music critics and reporters, have been presented. Best opera house of 2025 is La Monnaie in Brussels. The jury chair said: ‘Brussels opera house La Monnaie / […]