The second-quarter radio audience figures are out and it is mostly gloom for the BBC. Radio 2 has fallen behind commercial Heart FM with a 3.7% drop. Radio 1’s breakfast show is down 4% Radio […]
Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]