The violist Clifton Harrison has let it be known he is leaving the Kreutzer Quartet in a couple of weeks. He has been with the much-recorded group for just under ten years.
That Bastard Puccini is the title of a new play coming to the London stage by former Gramophone editor, James Inverne. It recounts the race between Puccini and Leoncavallo to compose an opera on La […]
Daniel Kidane (Photo: Kaupo Kikkas) Wigmore Hall is devoting Saturday 30 November 2024 to composer Daniel Kildane. Born in Britain of Russian and Eritrean parentage, Kildane was talented young and sang in the children’s chorus […]
In 1781, the enlightened Emperor Joseph II abolished serfdom, ensuring society’s least privileged – servants like Figaro and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro – of certain civil freedoms, including marriage. In their opera, Mozart and […]