The tragic story of ill-starred lovers might sound familiar but Wòlô Bòskô is a rare thing: a dramatic song cycle sung in the Kashubian language. The Kashubians are an ethnic group native to the historical region […]
The soprano, presently divorcing tenor Yusif Eyvazov, posted the attached selfie on her Instagram account last week. The picture was unsaved and disappeared after 24 hours. Plenty of fans circulated it, however. And Austria’s Kronenzeitung […]
Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna. Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh […]