Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

The Arts Council was founded in 1946, in the words of Maynard Keynes, ‘to encourage the best British national arts, everywhere, and to do it as far as possible by supporting others rather than by […]

The German gadfly Axel Brüggemann reports that Dresden’s sometime Semper Ball chief Hans-Joachim Frey is organising a St Petersburg Ball for his patron, Vladimir Putin. Top of the bill is Putin’s cellist and money-launderer Sergey […]

The festival published next summer’s plans this morning. The eye-catcher is an attempt by Peter Sellars to combine Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung with the finale of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, both written in 1909. […]