Welsh National Opera took its tremendous Peter Grimes to Birmingham last night. At the curtain call, some of the singers wore t-shirts proclaiming ‘Don’t cut the chorus’. The message will have fallen on blind eyes […]
The violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov, head of Moscow’s International House of Music, has been awarded a state honour by his friend in the Kremlin. Spivakov, 80, joins a list of hard-handed sons of toil. […]
Salzburg today declared 98.2 percent ticket sales. Bayreuth put up sold-out notices. Lucerne has yet to announce but it’s clear that the elite festivals are back where they were before Covid. Which is good for […]