New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

James Inverne’s new play, That Bastard Puccini, opened last night at the Park Theatre, in north London. It relates the rivalry between Giacomo Puccini and Ruggero Leoncavallo as they raced to be first to complete […]

The musicologist David Evatt Tunley has died in Perth at the age of 96. A student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he wrote a seminal work on the French 18th century cantata and was decorated […]

The blended Scotch whisky brand has neded six years of lead sponsorship for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They have no replacement. The city is proposing to impose an overnight tax on visitors from next year […]