Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

West Edge Opera of California are putting on a new opera about Dolores Huerta of the Democratic Socialists of America, leader of the five-year 1960s grape strike. She coined the slogan, ‘Si se puede – […]

The polemicist Heather Mac Donald detects the dead hand of Edward Said behind the Met’s dysfunctional new production of Aida in which the supernumerary hero is a befuddled Egyptologist. Her brilliant article appears in next […]

From the Lebrecht Album  of the Week: Music of the Second Vienna School was condemned as noise on first reception. How deaf is that? The greatest asset of these revolutionary works is their quietude. The […]