The Bunker Mödling on the outskirts of Vienna is staging a macabre show of nasty moments in six centuries of the imperial ruling family. Highlights are a transvestite archduke, an epileptic imbecile and the world-resounding […]
The Alastair Macaulay review: Phaedra/ Minotaur, 07.02.2025 Now that the Royal Opera House has been rebranded as Royal Ballet and Opera, it could use a few productions that combine the two art forms. Unfortunately, its […]
This is a significant release from Naxos: Rachmaninoc’s Piano Sonatas No. 1 & 2, plus an arrangement of the orchestral tone-poem The Isle of the Dead. The First Sonata, D-Minor, Op. 28, dates from 1907/08. […]