Does Edinburgh know what it's getting?
Norman Lebrecht
March 26, 2010
Bliss, Brett Dean’s opera on Peter Carey’s novel, opened in Sydney amid a tide of patriotism for Australia’s most important
Believe what you like
Norman Lebrecht
March 26, 2010
Courtney Love, widow of the late Kurt Cobain and supposedly ‘the most controversial woman in the history of rock’, has
No more Holy Molys
Norman Lebrecht
March 25, 2010
When the meditative music of Arvo Pärt and Henryk Mikolai Gorecki reached western ears in the early 1980s, it was
Lament for Lady Walton
Norman Lebrecht
March 23, 2010
Susana, widow of the composer William Walton, has died in the garden shrine she created in his memory at La
Lang Lang gets a partner
Norman Lebrecht
March 22, 2010
The Sony label, which paid $3 million to snatch Lang Lang from Deutsche Grammophon a few weeks ago, has swooped again
The war has ended at Bayreuth
Norman Lebrecht
March 22, 2010
The death of Wolfgang Wagner, announced Sunday night, ends a post-war era at Bayreuth that was almost as unpleasant as the
Waltzing off with an everlasting smile
Norman Lebrecht
March 21, 2010
The Vienna Philharmonic has posted a tribute to one of its oldest friends, Franz Mailer, the supreme authority on three-four
So who's slashing artist fees?
Norman Lebrecht
March 19, 2010
In the second episode of my conversation with the strings world in The Strad magazine, I discuss what has been
A Very Serious Jew
Norman Lebrecht
March 7, 2010
Before you sit down tonight to watch the Oscars, you may wish to sample the latest in-depth analysis of one
News just in: Philip Langridge has died
Norman Lebrecht
March 6, 2010
The great English tenor, the outstanding Peter Grimes and Aschenbach of recent years, has succumbed to a rapid, aggressive cancer.
How critics make up their minds
Norman Lebrecht
March 5, 2010
Coming out of a premiere at the Young Vic last night, I overheard the following exchange between two of the