Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

… comes from our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: When you read about it beforehand, the Albert Hall Prom of July 21 – played by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by John Storgårds – seemed to […]

The ballet has announced the death of Yuri Grigorovich, its all-powerful director from 1964 to 1995. No large stage in the Soviet Union was untouched by his productions. His most performed choreographies included Prokofiev’s Ivan […]

How far may a person go to free themselves from dire circumstances? Here, a woman becomes a vile murderer, and yet the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich sympathises with her.  Of his own radically complex leading character, […]