Two weeks ago, on a British Airways flight to Shanghai, I found a foreign body in a bowl of plain boiled rice. It was a

There has been something of an epidemic at the London show Six, featuring the unhappy wives of Henry VIII (name them if you can). Maiya

The Putin conductor got booed and bad reviews for his disengaged reading of the new Tannhäuser, having spent the previous weeks conducting here, there and

The quote comes at 2:40. Might it be time for her to try the Schoenberg? Birtwistle? Some Alkan?  

While others face cuts, Dallas has gone for mass hiring, filling at one swoop the long-vacant principal viola seat, several more string players and the

Jamie Barton has come out on Twitter as an occasional binge eater who is recovering from the effects of multiple diets: I wanna tell you

The French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig, 28, is one of the rising names on the opera scene. Winner of the 2015 Domingo Operalia and an ensemble

Mattia Aceto, Italy Ferran Arbona Lluch, Spain Narek Arutyunian, Armenia Tiago Bento, Portugal Zilvinas Brazauskas, Lithuania Carlos Brito Ferreira, Portugal Antonio Capolupo, Italy Yung-Yuan Chiang,

There are almost a dozen changes in the first half of next season, hardly any major roles but most of the subs coming – encouragingly,