The Portuguese artist Maria João Pires announced her retirement in 2018, only to bounce back the following year for selected engagements. This year, turning 80, she is offering a holiday gift recital of Mozart and […]
Salzburg today declared 98.2 percent ticket sales. Bayreuth put up sold-out notices. Lucerne has yet to announce but it’s clear that the elite festivals are back where they were before Covid. Which is good for […]
The veteran polymath Richard Dyer who reviewed music, film and literature in the Boston Globe for half a century died today at Mass General Hospital. Tim Page writes: ‘He was a master — one of […]