Ottorino Respighi’s ‘mystery in three episodes’, Maria Egiziaca (Saint Mary of Egypt) started out as a concert triptych. Some have suggested its dramatic/symphonic slant puts it midway between oratorio and opera, but stagings are fairly […]
We hear that Graham Walker, Director of the recently scrapped St John’s Voices Choir, has not been resting on laurels. He is the force behind the new Cambridge University Schola Cantorum, the university’s first liturgical […]
Czech media are respectfully noting the death of Ludek Golat, former head of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre. He was 70. Golat was fired in 2009 after he threw a salami at a singer’s face, knocking […]