Fascinating Aida – as ever

The US tenor Brian Jagde was supposed to take the lead in the Met’s new run of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. When he pulled out, the Met called in Brandon Jovanovich. Now he’s gone, too. […]

The composer has come out bitterly against the belated first Berlin staging of his 1987 opera. This @deutsche_oper production: painful to even think about. “Nixon in China” is so often mistreated or misunderstood. In 35 […]

Yesterday’s school shooting, which took 11 lives, has paralysed Austria’s second largest city. All public entertainments have been called off this week, starting with Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the opera. Across the rest of Austria, […]