Two American composers cooling off

The legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz, who is 90, is the mourning of her son, the composer Ziad Rahbani. Ziad, who was 69, composed his first song for his mother when he was 17.  His best-known […]

The formative director of Saint-Etienne opera, Jean Louis Pichon, has been found dead at his home, local media have reported. He was 77. The cause of death is under investigation. Pichon ran his hometown opera […]

This is what they did at the Staatsoper when Jonas sang Bajazzo this week for the first time in Vienna. The Italian tenor Luciano Ganci jumped in as Turiddu in place of the unwell Jonathan […]