Donizetti: Maria Stuarda – Nino Gotoshia, Lisette Oropesa – Salzburg Festival 2025 (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) For the 2026 Salzburg Festival, the Intendant, Markus Hinterhäuser has taken Roland Barthes’ 1977 book A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (Fragments […]
Katharina Wagner has said she’s ‘disappointed’ at having to cut four operas from the anniversary season of 2026. ‘But what can you do? You can’t ignore reality.’ She blames national wage rises for the shortfall. […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Don’t try to pin an adjective to Gerhard: he transcends them all. The son of a Swiss-German father and an Alsatian mother, born in Spanish Catalonia, he studied […]