The Italian tenor, who would have turned 100 on Saturday, is to be celebrated at La La Scala on July 15, at a Turndot performance. Bergonzi died, aged 90, in July 2014. Born near Parma, […]
John Aylward’s opera film “Oblivion” has won the Best Musical Film award at Cannes World Film Festival. Aylward, a Boston composer and librettist, had intended his work for the live stage. But Covid intervened and […]
Statue of 8th-century Japanese Master Kūkai The 8th-century Japanese Master Kūkai journeyed across the sea to Tang-China to study Esoteric Buddhism under the revered monk, Master Huiguo. Returning to Japan in the year 806, he […]