Richard Wagner’s only comic opera had a long gestation. Summer 1845: drawing on the History of German Literature as well as the biography of poet and shoemaker Hans Sachs, the composer sketches out ideas for a satirical […]
The Rose At this time of the year, I keenly miss friends who are far away. This New Year, my dearest friends, singer-songwriters Amanda McBroom and Michele Brourman, are at home in California and I […]
The vocal quartet G4 have made public the death of their former low tenor, Ben Thapa. No cause has been shared. Ben was known to have been hospitalised last month with kidney disease. G4 say: […]