Bartoli celebrates Domingo

Many readers will remember John Adams’ inspired setting of the John Donne poem in Doctor Atomic. Well, here’s another. It’s by a British composer, Joanna Marsh, who lives in Dubai.   The post More than […]

The death is recorded of the veteran German opera director Hans-Peter Lehmann, at 90 years old. Originally from Kassel, he assisted Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner at Bayreuth from 1960 and 1973. He opened his account […]

In May last year, Rice University in Texas fired horn professor William VerMeulen after allegations of sexual misconduct with female students, which he denied. VerMeulen was suspended for two months from playing in the Houston […]