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From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, My 2nd and 3rd year of college was during Covid. I play a wind instrument. It was very tough to improve during those years, and even after that I […]

Alastain Macaulay reviews Donizetti’s time-shifted Elixir of Love at English National Opera: Harry Fehr’s English National Opera adorable production of Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” (“L’Elisir d’Amore”, 1832) doesn’t just translate this idyllic rural comedy […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Ethel Smyth was a middle-class butch lesbian from an English military family who went to jail for the Suffragette cause and was seen conducting fellow-inmates at Holloway Prison […]

In 1964, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times called Stanley Kubrick’s movie Dr Strangelove, “the most shattering sick joke I’ve ever come across”. The almost slavishly admiring stage production currently at the Noel Coward Theatre lives […]

The Doric String Quartet, on the road since 1998, has replaced founder-vioinist Alex Redington and violist Hélène Clément with the merest whisper of a social media post. They say: We are thrilled to welcome violinist […]

National Gallery Anniversary, Part Three Click here to subscribe ​ Many of you enjoyed the first part of the documentary about the National Gallery celebration of its 200th anniversary. For you, here is Part Three […]

The Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires has appointed Beatrice Venezi as Principal Guest Conductor of Colón’s resident orchestra and of its opera season. She is presently rehearsing Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. Venezi, 34, is […]

The death has been communicated of Barry Jordan, organist and music director of Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany. The cause of death was cancer. A graduate of the university of Cape Town, he studied in Vienna […]

The indefatigable musician is resting at home in Berlin after an exhausting West-East Diwan tour. He cannot live without making music. Here, he discusses music as stimulus, or oblivion. We wish Daniel many happy returns. […]

Our renowned ballet reviewer had an unusually bad night:   MaddAddam, Wayne McGregor’s Timidly Clichéd Dystopia by Alastair Macaulay   In Wayne McGregor’s new three-act “MaddAddam”, the Royal Ballet has chosen to present us with […]