Sondheim, piano solo

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 German conductor will celebrate his birthday tonight and tomorrow with the Bamberg Symphony with performances of Bruckner’s first symphony and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony. The much-travelled maestro is presently artistic director of the National […]

Munich’s new production of Puccini’s shocker is set in 1975 in Rome where Pier Paolo Pasolini is filming ‘The 120 Days of Sodom’. The Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó opens his interpretation with fascist soldiers leading […]