The Italian-US tenor Lando Bartolini, who died today, had a rags trade to riches story. Unhappy working in his family’s textile factory in Prato, he moved to Philadelphia in 1966 and started taking voice lessons […]
From our roving critic Susan Hall: The American director Peter Sellars, a fixture at the Salzburg Festival, arrived this year with a juxtaposition of works by Anton Schoenberg (Erwartung) and Gustav Mahler (Der Abschied from […]
If Birtwistle’s 1968 opera Punch and Judy took the children’s puppet entertainment into the adult realm, The Opera Makers plan to the opposite with their new show Mr Punch at the Opera which is an interactive, pantomime-style […]