● AS WE ALL KNOW, OPERA IS THE ...

Ah, the glory and glamour of being an operatic superstar! The Met one week, La Scala the next; a quick trip to Hong Kong for a recital before flying back to Covent Garden for a run of Toscas. As opera

Music is a serious business. Whether it’s love, death, heartbreak, loneliness, power, conflict, destruction, sin, faith, hope, despair… you name it, every weighty subject and state of mind has been ta

Theatre: Dracula Noël Coward Theatre, London WC2 ...

In December 1838, a few days after Berlioz had conducted a concert of his own works that included Harold in Italy, a four-movement ‘symphony with principal viola’, the composer found that his bank bal

The perhaps wisely uncredited author of the piece about Tellef Johnson’s premiere of Sorabji’s Piano Sonata No. 5 (Full Score, February) seeks to claim ‘due seriousness’ for their report. The presumed