Gustav is not Gustavo: LA Phil goes off the scale

The Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov, a vocal supporter of his president’s wars, has issued a statement on social media following his latest disappearance from a foreign stage: Cancellation of Don Carlo and Attila in Napoli […]

Gareth Ritter, conductor of Ebbw Valley Brass Band and the Lydbrook Band, has been sent to trial in Cardiff charged with sexual assault, two counts of making an indecent image of a child, and one […]

Oscar Wilde’s 170th Birthday In the West End theatre season of 1895, the playwright Oscar Wilde had three plays running simultaneously in the West End. Lady Windermere’s Fan came first, in 1892, A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1894). He […]