Pick of the Week

Richard Morrison in the Times asks the tenor about the prospect of working with his second wife, the director Christiane

Welcome to the 38th work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Edition Piano sonatas nos 16 to 18, opus 31 (1801-2) The three sonatas

Six years ago, the Finnish volinist and conductor Dalia Stasevska made waves on a Ukrainian website by attacking Valery Gergiev

The Welsh Opera singer Wynne Evans, known for his UK role as Gio Compario in the Go Compare insurance adverts –

Two orchestra in Illinois are on the brink. The Lake Forest Symphony, founded by Chicago Symphony concertmaster, Victor Aitay, has

We’re hearing from people at Covent Garden than Jonas Kaufmann was a no-show at today’s dress rehearsal of Fidelio. Unwell,

The US union of opera performers has taken issue with the New York Times wording of its proposed settlement with

From my Spectator interview with the music director of the Royal Opera House: …. He has his own view on

We heard it from Sir Antonio Pappano, in a Spectator interview that comes out today. Pappano, who is meant to

Statement just received on the Vienna Staatsoper’s dismissal of a principal cello, who holds the same seat in the Vienna

The Manchester orchestra has chosen David Butcher of the Britten Sinfonia to succeed John Summers, who is retiring this summer.