The only man ever to be titled creative director at the BBC, Alan Yentob held editorial control of serious arts on television. Yentob, who has died of oesophigal cancer at the age of 78, made […]
The first Parisian audiences at the Opéra Comique were supposedly shocked to see the incarnation of such an independent heroine. But what did those audiences in 1875 actually see on stage? With the support of […]
Jonathan Dove’s The Monster in the Maze was commissioned and first performed in 2015 by the Berlin Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle. A modern re-telling of the myth of the Minotaur (there is […]