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

The legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz, who is 90, is the mourning of her son, the composer Ziad Rahbani. Ziad, who was 69, composed his first song for his mother when he was 17.  His best-known […]

Uncertainty at English National Opera is affecting long-term casting plans. The company says: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Innocent Masuku and Nmon Ford have withdrawn from playing the roles of Nemorino and Belcore respectively in Donizetti’s […]

The festival published next summer’s plans this morning. The eye-catcher is an attempt by Peter Sellars to combine Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung with the finale of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, both written in 1909. […]