Want to hear the Met’s deadly Aida?

Puccini’s adaptation of the novel by Abbé Prévost had a complicated gestation. An alarmingly long list of librettists attempted to satisfy the composer’s demands in terms of dramatic structure and fine verbal detail. Was Puccini […]

We have received late notification of the death in November of the sound engineer Michael Brammann, winner of two Grammy awards though not – as so often happens – necessarily for his best work, Michael, […]

We are saddened to report the death, aged 71, of the singer Sarah Leonard,  a focal performer for the past half-century. Starting out for five years in the BBC Singers, Sarah became a leading interpreter […]