Daniel Barenboim, end of tour

Message received: It is with great regret that Sondra Radvanovsky has had to withdraw from the title role of Turandot on The Royal Opera’s Japan tour due to a severe ear infection and sinusitis. She […]

The polemicist Stephen Pollard argues in the Spectator that Covent Garden was right to hire her. … I review opera, and so I had a decision to take: should I remain true to my principles […]

We hear that the Teatro Sancarlo in Naples, which evicted the Frenchman Stéphane Lissner on government orders, is about to instal Fulvio Macciardi of Bologna as his successor as sovrintendente. Macciardi hired Oksana Lyniv in […]