Anyone who reads my blog knows I love the Piatti Quartet. It is interesting though, as is so often the case with many of today’s string quartets, some of their personnel keeps changing (particularly the […]
One of opera’s greatest depictions of impossible love, Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Massenet thought long and hard about adapting Goethe’s story of a melancholy poet whose love for a married […]
Audience favourite Adrian Eröd will take over the State Opera’s Opera Studionext season. Eröd, 54, will be in charge of the training programme for young singers, one of the best in Europe. The post Baritone […]