From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Ethel Smyth was a middle-class butch lesbian from an English military family who went to jail for the Suffragette cause and was seen conducting fellow-inmates at Holloway Prison […]
From a reader: Saturday’s performance of Saul had to be abandoned minutes before the final curtain because of a power outage. The announcements from the stage were almost inaudible from my seat in the Upper […]
The celebrated Heldentenor and German TV presenter turned 87 last week. He told an interviewer that he will not face the end of life as a nursing case. ‘I have a very good and nice […]