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The hopelessly discredited funding body announced a major U-turn today. After years of complaint that it was making arts orgs spend more time on filling forms than making art, it has eased the rules for […]

Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera on Dostoievsky novel The Idiot has received audience ovations and ecstatic reviews at the Salzburg Festival. The director Krzysztof Warlikowski updates the story to Putin’s Russia, replete with characters selling their souls […]

First-night review from our occasional contributor Susan Hall: Claus Guth, the noted European director, debuts at the Metropolitan Opera with Richard Strauss’ Salome. It is an electrifying production, originally created with the Bolshoi Theatre of […]