The other St John Passion

From the Korea Times: Renowned soprano Angela Gheorghiu caused a stir during a performance of Puccini’s “Tosca” in Seoul, halting the orchestra and interrupting her co-star’s mid-show encore, much to the dismay of opera enthusiasts […]

We have learned of the death of the French mezzo-soprano Béatrice Uria-Monzon, one of the great Carmens of her day. She owned the role in Paris throughout the 1990s and recorded it with Alain Lombard. […]

Richard Klein, principal of New York’s High School of Music and Art, has died, aged 94. He unified two schools in 1984, creating Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing […]