New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

We hear that a new rector at Notre Dame de Paris has dismissed two organists and replaced them with an underqualified young man. A petition to rectify the situation is being signed by many of […]

Die Walküre stands at the pinnacle of Romantic musical drama. Barely has the curtain opened when Wagner unleashes orchestral writing that sweeps everything away in its path. Storm, incest, divine wrath, irrepressible passion: everything is there […]

It’s a minute past midnight in New York on January 1, 1954. The partygoers include  Rose Bampton-Wilfrid Pelletier Mr. & Mrs. S. Chotzinoff Blair Chotzinoff Mr. & Mrs. Yashia Merovich Guido Cantelli-Iris Cantelli Walter Toscanini […]