Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

This week’s Alastair Macaulay Review is a triple-header of current operas. Two should have been bigger and better. The third was embarrasingly  ludicrous. Read on: 1: Mary Queen of Scots – English National Opera, February […]

From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, A concertgoer waited to meet me after a concert several months ago. We went on several dates, and he is nice enough. It’s just not the perfect thing for […]

Ever since he parted from Yuja Wang, the multi-job Finnish conductor has been going out with a Norwegian violinist Amanda Håøy Horn. Amanda has been deputising in the strings of the Oslo Philharmonic, amid some […]