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The Met, bless its cotton socks, has a new project to display as an adjunct to its HD worldwide cinecasts. It says the intention is to exp...

How to turn a good contemporary opera into an eternal iconic masterpiece 101: suppress it.  Comment piece now up on the Amati.com webzine. ...

I missed the Met's cinema relay of Werther yesterday, travelling home from Paris... Thank you to their website for making the final sc...

...I've been in New York and - in between shopping, museum-hopping and seeing all my oldest and dearest friends - spent a rather plea...

My goodness, the folks at ENO and the Met are brave. They're staging a co-production of John Adams's  The Death of Klinghoffer , dir...

Yeah, classical music is really dying...not. Tonight at the Royal Opera House there's the first of two all-star performances of Tosca...

Around 11pm yesterday, Richmond-upon-Thames was the scene of some strange nocturnal activity, besides the usual gaggles of drunken, semi-n...

Our host site was down all yesterday and there's a lot to catch up on now. (Is the John Lewis warranty system also powered by Blogger? T...