Besame mucho – the historically informed performance

From my monthly essay in The Critic: Stars have been falling out of opera like apples in late summer. Jonas Kaufmann, a serial drop-out, now has a second career as a festival manager. Anna Netrebko […]

The London-based agency Inntermusica, which yesterday lost Yuja Wang, has just seen Marin Alsop walk through the door. She’s joining AskonasHolt in Europe, consolidating her main relationship with its partner Opus3. All this before breakfast […]

Dear Alma, I was with a bunch of orchestra friends and a few beers the other night when we realised none of us could remember the last family vacation. Like a proper holiday, up a […]