Wake up to Hildegard

Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion— Met Museum   I grew up in a fashion family so all the recent museum shows about clothes and their designers – Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Valentino, etc, on both sides of the Atlantic […]

The faltering mega-agency has upped its morale with the capture of US mezzo J’nai Bridges from HarrisonParrott. Bridges, unconventionally, suggest her last agency was not pulling its weight: ‘Joining IMG is a remarkable moment which […]

Alexandra Pakhmutova, composer of ‘Nadezhda’ and other Soviet schlaggers, turned 95 last week. Her biggest fan, Vladimir Putin, sent a message. The Bolshoi was packed with acolytes. Yuri Bashmet conducted, just about. Ildar Abdarazakov, Hibla […]