Nicola Benedetti has chosen ‘The Truth We Seek’ as her theme for next summer’s festival. The programme includes Mary, Queen of Scots from Scottish Ballet, an Australian Orpheus and Eurydice and a visit by Carnegie […]
Poster for the première performance of Édouard Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys. During the 19th century, many French composers became fascinated by Wagner and his operas. Not every composer managed as balanced an attitude as Gabriel Fauré […]
Obituary by Alastair Macaulay: The enchanting, generous, warm, and devout Marianne Preger Simon (1929-2024) has died. She danced for and with Merce Cunningham well before there was any Cunningham Dance Company. In 1949, finding that […]