In 19th century Japan, a young Frenchman travels to Japan to learn about the secrets of silk production. While visiting a rich man, he observes a young girl with her eyes closed. She suddenly opens […]
Barbara Cook Someone who was definitely flesh and blood was the great Barbara Cook. Her creamy effortless lyric soprano led the original casts of many musicals of the 1950s and, when she was no longer […]
Before the various PR flood my inbox with protests, let me specify that the two elements above are not appearing together. Simon Rattle will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra for the first time in his […]