Martha Argerich, 83 today, plays Prokofiev in Hiroshima

More musical blood on Putin’s hands. The talented solo organist of the Sumy Philharmonic Orchestra, Olena Kohut, was a victim of the Kremlin’s Sunday bombing. She is mourned by her mother, husband and sons, according […]

The conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, recovering presently from a bout of flu, as been using his downtime to create an online shrine to his phenomenal ancestors. “My grandparents became mega-stars,” says Tilson Thomas, “and found […]

The first Parisian audiences at the Opéra Comique were supposedly shocked to see the incarnation of such an independent heroine. But what did those audiences in 1875 actually see on stage?  With the support of […]