After months of speculation, the stakeholders have given the hereditary director of the Bayreuth Festival another five years of rule until 2030. However, they have decided to impose a General Manager, using the English term, […]
From our critic in residence: I. The playwright Mike Bartlett write plays for today in idioms that hanker for the plays of yesterday. His most prestigious play to date has been “King Charles III”, written […]
The Russian-Austrian diva has been seen this week in Amsterdam in the company of her new beau, the Hungarian-Romanian bass Alexander Köpeczi. The pair have been friends since April when they sang together in La […]