This book-length thesis by Axel Englund, professor of literature at the University of Stockholm, aruges that opera is a surrogate for our darkest fantasies and

No, not an enduring adolescent disorder. Nor the bit in the Brahms D minor concerto (which I don’t remember him ever playing). It’s the sub-head

Press statement: The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Mons. Marcos Pavan, currently acting interim Master Director of the same Pontifical Music Chapel, as Master

The St Louis music critic Sarah Bryan Miller died today after a ten-year history of cancer. A former mezzo-soprano at the Lyric Opera in Chicago,

The administrator Sarah Wedl-Wilson has been named president of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. She is already president of Berlin’s Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule and Board

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From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: What would you say if I gave up star ratings? They are only the vaguest approximation of a

The Order of Canada has been bestowed on the violinist Lara St.John, who may now place the letters CM after her name. Lara’s courageous openness

Ariane Todes has posted a personal memoir of Sheila Nelson, who has died at 84 after seven years of Alzheimer’s. Aside from her teaching practice,

Richard Abram writes: My friend and colleague Gery Bramall marked her 100th birthday earlier this month with a quiet family party in traditional Zoom style