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Our resident critic Alastair Macaulay is spending most of his summer at the Royal Albert Hall: by Alastair Macaulay Let’s hear it for the term “semi-staged”! On Monday 1 September, English National Opera presented Shostakovich’s […]

The BBC is reporting that members of the Welsh National Opera orchestra have accepted a pay deal after a year of protests. The price is the loss of 10 positions, which are curretnyl vacant. WNO […]

The conductor has written a fond tribute to his longtime friend and mentor. Hard even to know where to start with Alfred: for any musician of my generation he was simply always there, the very […]