New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

Rising concern about Arts Cancel England (ACE) has prompted librarians at the House of Lords to prepare a really useful couple of charts on how opera has been centrally funded over the past eight years. […]

An insider tells us that the WNO orchestra will open next season without: A Leader Principal second violin ( long-term maternity leave) ANY double-basses Principal flute Second clarinet Second trumpet Second trombone Timpanist There are […]

A revealing comment from the chief conductor’s annual meeting with the Berlin press: ‘In rehearsals, I tell the orchestra: Please do this and that – and then in the concert they will play it the […]