Ruth Leon recommends… Rudolf Nureyev and Miss Piggy

This week’s Alastair Macaulay Review is a triple-header of current operas. Two should have been bigger and better. The third was embarrasingly  ludicrous. Read on: 1: Mary Queen of Scots – English National Opera, February […]

From the Washington Post: Last week, “The President’s Own” quietly canceled a concert program originally billed as the “Equity Arc Wind Symphony.” The performance was to be the culmination of a “multi-day music intensive with […]

The Saxon soprano  Barbara Hoene has died, aged 80. She spent 36 years as a soloist of the Semper Oper in Dresden, where she was appointed  Kammersängerin, She married the violinist Klaus Hoene and retired […]