From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I have been part of a school for many years, teaching pre-college students. Recently, they called me in and told me I am no longer eligible for health insurance. […]
J.M.Synge’s Riders to the Sea at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin Ralph Vaughan Williams’ operatic masterpiece, Riders to the Sea, his 1927 one-act opera remains something of a neglected gem, to a certain extent because no-one […]
Digital theatre Click here to rent or subscribe Here’s an unusual contemporary play which blurs a true crime podcast with a thrilling ride down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of […]
From Scherzo: The conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit, according to the Royal Decree published yesterday, January 15, in the Official State Gazette. This […]
Gustavo Dudamel is rewriting the guest tour rules. Here’s the press release: The Berliner Philharmoniker will embark on a concert tour of Japan under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, continuing their long-standing relationship with the […]
Laura Kuhn, director of the John Cage Trust which she co-founded after the composer’s death in 1992, announced her retirement this week. She met Cage while finishing her PhD on Europera. She also worked closely […]
In an interview on Zsoly Bognar’s Living the Creative Life, the Spanish-based pianist talks about how she helped a young singer to leave Venezuelan, took him in as a house guest and helped him to […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If you are about to step into a warm bath, put one of these on the player and submerse your January body in a fantasy world that never […]