On March 24, 2015, we reported the crash of a Germanwings flight in which two opera singers – Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak – lost their lives. They were among 150 victims of the disaster, […]
Charli Eglington, who is 25 tomorrow, has composed a musical on the after-life of Mozart – how his sister Nannerl and his widow Constanze buried their personal jelousies to craft a posthumous image that protected […]
From my monthly essay in The Critic: Twice in the last century, Russia stood on the brink of world dominance. Specifically in music, but in other fields as well. Here’s roughly what happened…. Read on […]