Anna Lapwood is disengaged

Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]

No other newspaper would indulge in such monstrous self-regard when a major artist has died as the Times has done for Alfred Brendel. Not even a hint of a suggestion that its successive chief music […]

The London end of AskonasHolt has signed the signature Austrian bass, Günther Groissböck. He was formerly with Nicola Kamphausen at Hilbert. Groissböck, 50 this month, warrants a higher global profile that he has obtained so […]