La Fille mal gardée – Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sadler’s Wells Review by Alastair Macaulay Frederick Ashton’s full-length ballet “La Fille mal gardée” (1960) is a comic study of rural innocence that runs far deeper […]
We are shocked to learn of the death from sepsis of Chris Pollard, former publisher of Gramophone magazine and an all-round enthusiast for everything to do with classical music and opera. Chris, who had been […]
The soprano, 85 today, made her debut at 15 in Barber of Seville before being groomed by Wieland Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival. She says: No-one has sung as long as I have, not even […]