Anna Lapwood is disengaged

The only man ever to be titled creative director at the BBC, Alan Yentob held editorial control of serious arts on television. Yentob, who has died of oesophigal cancer at the age of 78, made […]

We understand that the violinist Nicola Benedetti, director of the Edinburgh Festival, gave birth on Monday to her first child. Mother and baby are doing well, friends say. Benedetti, 35, is in a relationship with […]

The South African soprano Elza van den Heever, presently in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Met, has let it be known on social media that she’s singing Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Bayreuth […]