We hear that the French star Ludovic Tézier has withdrawn from rehearsals and from the first night of the Bastille Opera’s new Rheinegold. He has flu. He is to be replaced by the Scottish bass-baritone […]
Johann Nepomuk Hummel is known as much for being a pupil of Mozart and Haydn as for his actual music. A virtuoso pianist himself, he wrote a significant amount of piano music but there is […]
Washington National Cathedral has been shaken by the unforseen departure of its British director of music, Michael McCarthy. Mike writes: Having nearly completed my 21st year at the National Cathedral and having had the benefit […]