L’Itinéraire! The joyous centrepoint of Baroque Itinéraire 2024

In my very early teens, I sneaked into an over-16s ‘A’ film of an all-black casting of Bizet’s opera Carmen. Never having seen Carmen in an opera house, I was overwhelmed and not a little […]

The numbers are in at the Erl winter festival in Tyrol and the backers are happy. When the curtain dropped last night, 94 percent of tickets had been sold, more than ever before. What counted […]

Washington National Opera and the National Symphony just announced next season’s plans under new management. WNO is putting on Robert Ward’s opera of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a reconfoguration of the 1650s Salem witch-hunt as […]