John Adams calls Berlin’s Nixon in China ‘a disgrace’

In 1999, I named a seat at the Royal Opera House after my eldest sister. She had been a devoted operagoer in the 1950s and my kid brother’s nod to her past happiness was much […]

We have been notified of the passing of Joan Lippincott, one of the foremost organ teachers of the past half century. An international soloist with two-dozen recordings to her name, Lippincott was Head of the […]

There’s no reason to read anything political into this, but the Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian has cancelled a week with the Cleveland Orchestra this month, ‘because of personal reasons’. Here’s the official statement: The Cleveland […]