Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

We hear that chorus rehearsals at the Metropolitan Opera were stopped yesterday after singers came to work and found asbestos crews ripping out suspected asbestos. Rigoletto went ahead as planned last night but chaos and […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If you are about to step into a warm bath, put one of these on the player and submerse your January body in a fantasy world that never […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Comparisons in music are unfair. An ephemeral art cannot be measured and pinned, like a butterfly, to the page without risking mortal damage. Nevertheless, human beings possess critical […]