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Louise Alder is the first British singer for a decade to feature in the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. (Don’t ask why, just happened that way.) Louise, who spent a decade at Frankfurt Oper, […]

This is a scene from a new Richard Strauss production in Berlin. I will confine my criticism to the singer’s ironing technique: that is not how you do men’s collars, darling. I can just about […]

Spiros Rantos died in Brisbane on Friday. Obituary by Breandáin O’Shea. Born in Corfu in 1945, Rantos studied in Athens and, at 18, was offered a position at Linz Opera by its visiting chief conductor. […]