Halle Orchestra names new leader

The Dover Quartet, which positioned itself ‘to take up the mantle of the Emersons’ has suffered a setback with the withdrawal of violist Julianne Lee. She has decided she prefers her old job in the […]

Vladimir Putin has issued a decree granting Russian citizenship to the veteran Italian stage director Giancarlo del Monaco. Son of the famed tenor Mario del Monaco. Giancarlo directed Rigoletto at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow […]

This is what you’ll receive if you want to see Marrange of Figaro at Glyndebourne Festival Opera: Are we agrred that this has gone too far? It’s either a summer intern in the marketing cabin […]