The Israeli prime minister is using all manner of excuses to avoid appearing in court tomorrow to face questioning in his long-running corruption trial. Among his excuses are the situation in Syria, accelerated negotiations with […]
The Nutcracker auction has ended in Moscow, with bids coming in from all over Russia for scarce and expensive tickets in the Bolshoi’s seasonal run of 18 shows. The starting price was 50,000 rubles. The […]
Photos and videos of the piannist Maria Joao Pires show a small tattoo, a leaf perhaps, on the upper side of her right wrist. She has not apparently made reference to it. Does any of […]
Here’s the list of selected candidates. Marguerite Long was the dedicatee of the Ravel G major concerto. Jacques Thibaud formed a trio with Cortot as Casals. They were as French as French can be. The […]
The innovative opera director has resigned as artistic director at the LA-based Industry. He has been booked to direct a Ring cycle at the Met and wants to spend more time near the furnace. Tim […]
The English violinist ascribes three months of temporary deafness to the third Covid jab. He also suffered extreme fatigue, he tells Dalya Alberge in the Observer: “I turned into a zombie … I’d be nodding […]
Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]
Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]
The Vienna State Opera is about to open a sideline space for schoolchildren and young people. It is called NEST. In overall charge is VSO intendant Bogdan Roscic. What is described as NEST’s’project development’ is […]
Southwwark Cathedral is advertising for a director of music, in place of Ian Keatley, who died tragically while on holiday this summer. The pay is £55k, which doesn’t go far in London these days. And […]
