Filipina is lone outsider in Metropolitan Opera winners

From the Daily Telegraph: Ryanair and easyJet have been fined €179m (£149m) for “abusive practices” such as charging passengers for hand luggage. Spain fined the two carriers, along with Vueling, Norwegian Air and Volotea, and […]

The brilliant Bossa Nova pioneer has died in Los Angeles, aged 83. The cause, say his family, was long Covid. Mendes settled in the US in the 1960s amid political and military turbulence in Brazil […]

Pablo  Casals conducts a gloriously old-fashioned 1971 performance of J. S. Bach’s concerto for three keyboards and orchestra, staged at the United Nations building in New York. The soloists are Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Eugene Istomin and […]