The legacy

Robert Thicknesse on Opera

In other circumstances, it would be heartening to see an opera getting national attention. Yet once again, the recent buzz around Covent Garden concerns politics rather than performances. The latest f

Alexandra Wilson charts opera’s wild vicissitudes of fortune under both Labour and the Conservatives

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

Just two decades after the premiere of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, the Soviet Union paid a New York opera company to stage performances there. The year was 1956 and the Cold War was well underwa

Christoph von Dohnányi Born 1929 Conductor Born in Berlin, Christoph von Dohnányi came from an exceptional family. His grandfather was the great Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi, and his father H