Argentina’s Teatro Colon is now run from abroad

The Stonemason’s Yard Think Venice, especially if you have never been there, and chances are that the view that springs to mind will have been painted by Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto. He was […]

The Berlin Staatsoper has commissioned a bust for its resplendent foyer of an Austrian conductor who made his career behind the Iron Curtain. Otmar Siutner, from Innsbruck, took up a popst as principal conductor of […]

From Scottish Opera’s co-production with Holland Park Opera: ‘The Merry Widow is all about displaced people – originally, the fictitious Pontevedrians are displaced in France – so the world of Italian-American Mafia families finding their […]