Letter from the orchestra’s CEO Emma Stenning to a customer disturbed by use of phones in symphony concerts. Dear [name redacted] Thank you so much for your continued support of the CBSO. You are, and […]
From Tracey Thorn’s column in the New Statesman: The morning of the US election result I sat down at the piano and tried to play some Beethoven. Bearing in mind that I haven’t played the […]
Offenbach wrote his four-act romantic opera, Les fées du Rhin in 1864, for the Hofoper in Vienna where it was performed in a German translation as Die Rheinnixen. The tenor Alois Ander was ill and […]