Gustav is not Gustavo: LA Phil goes off the scale

The French musicologist and broadcaster Marcel Marnat has died at the age of 91. He was the author of the impressive 1985 Fayard biography of Maurice Ravel, and he was head of France Musique from […]

From our resident critic: How bizarre it is that some of Shakespeare’s plays have long been labelled “problem plays” – bizarre because all Shakespeare plays are problematic, because one can’t help feeling that it was […]

The music director has declared he’s had enough after two decades in which the company has stumbled from Placido Domingo sex-pest charges to its present cancellation of new work. No-one can fault Conlon for resigning […]