Oliver Mears, director of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, has emailed an explanation to staff as to why he attemped to remove a Palestine flag from one of the extras during curtain-calls for Il […]
The singer-songwriter, with his wife Nancy Shevell, attended Yom Kippur services in Santiago, Chile, yesterday, at the Circulo Israelita synagogue. He is seen near the front of the congregation, wearing a white skullcap. Sir Paul […]
From my monthly essay in The Critic (new issue out today) … Nothing in opera surpasses that single scenic blow to the seat of emotions. The effect is so visceral that I have seen cellists […]