The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia has named Sir Mark Elder as its music director, from September. Elder, 77, stepped down last year after quarter of a century as head of the […]
The thoughtful American musician Matthew Aucoin has been pondering a century-old question. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, a term that’s routinely applied to radically different […]
Giovanna d’Arco, which premiered at La Scala in 1845, was an instant popular success. It is said that within a few weeks of the premiere the favourite melodies from Giovanna were being ground out on the […]