He’s an Aussie. Who knew?

Acclaimed musical La La Land is singing its way into everybody’s hearts, and winning every award going, but none of its songs would be so captivating without the work of Australian conductor Tim Davies.

Read on here.

The Canadian soprano Layla Claire and her husband, the US baritone John Chest, announce the birth of baby Matilda Claire.

All doing well.

Layla Claire is next on stage in Zurich as Elvira in March, then as Countess in Philadelphia’s Figaro a month later. John Chest sings Valentin in Berlin’s Faust next month, then on to the Count in Philadelphia’s Figaro. So the couple will be soon be together as Count and Countess.

Who’s babysitting?

The German tenor, 47, was cheered to the rafters at the end of Lohengrin in Paris last night.

No reviews yet, but he got through the production without incident.

Before going on stage he talked to AfP about his five-month layoff:

‘It was very difficult to have to wait so long to be able to sing again, especially because no one was able to tell me if it would take one month, two months or three months to heal. If I had known I would have taken some holidays but I had to wait and wait. I went to the doctor twice a week to see if it was getting any better.

Then when it had almost healed ‘the vein burst for a second time.’

Welcome back, Jonas.