Comedy had traditionally played little part in French opera. Lully soon eliminated comic episodes from his tragedies; from then until the appearance of this work, only a handful of operas had comic themes. The theme […]
The UK-schooled French luthier Patrick Robin has died at 69 after a long illness. A graduate of the UK’s Newark School of Violin Making, he joined a group of restorers in Bremen before founding Atelier […]
For the 2024/25 season, Sir Antonio Pappano ceded his position at the orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome to Daniel Harding; Pappano remains Conductor Emeritus. This is the finest modern Sheherazade: I remember being umbilically […]