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We weren't planning to spill the beans about this project so soon, but it has just been shortlisted for an exciting development prize, ...

The sensational Rinat Shaham returns to Glyndebourne to sing Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte , opening next Tuesday, 22 May. I fear I shall hav...

It's going to be a hot summer. Whenever the first Glyndebourne dress rehearsal is cold & wet, the weather for the rest of the seaso...

Well, the miracle of Debussy. I've started to feel that Pelleas et Melisande is the most rewarding of all operas: every performance I...

If you fancy going to see Philip Glass's opera about Mahatma Ghandi, Satyagraha , free of charge at the London Coliseum on 5 April, Sky-...

Blimey! The missing manuscript of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony has turned up, in a Co-op bag. Geoffrey Norris authenticated it and has ...

In the light of the Gant/Wordsworth debacle, here's another take on attitudes to new work of debated quality. In today's Independent...

... the Grauniad has decided that Madama Butterfly is racist, courtesy of Roger Parker of King's College London . Hasn't anyone the...

That interview with the glorious JDF finally found its way into the paper, or some of it did. It was for this , which is out today: how sing...

Opening at Covent Garden on 26 February, "a tale of conflicting passions, threats, magic, deceit and revelations which inspired Handel ...

I never quite 'got' it before. Il trovatore was way over my head. Too difficult. What's going on? Blood and guts, sure - but wh...

"In these awful moments You alone remain to me. You alone tempt me Last voice of my destiny Last cross of my journey.” It's from La...

La Boheme , Glyndebourne 2003. There I was, squeezing into orchestra last-minute spots whenever I could, lurking backstage whenever I couldn...

Apparently Dame Kiri has pulled out of some concerts with Australian pop star John Farnham because his fans throw their underwear at him. Sh...

Just back from doing an interview at Covent Garden. Walking down Floral Street towards the stage door, I saw outside it the vehicle that cha...

...The Met in New York has announced casting for its Ring Cycle in 2012 (!) and Kaufmann is to be Siegmund. Forward planning or what. Meanw...

Still reeling after Carmen at Covent Garden last night. I'm glad to report that Jonas Kaufmann is indeed the bees' knees, even more...

... are at it again . Walking out of things. Yes, it's the Alagna & Gheorghiu Show (or no show). Read the Alagna files in detail c/o...

Still walking on air after my interview with Signor King of the High Cs yesterday. Just to preserve the nautical imagery: what a dreamboat! ...

Tom pricked my Florez bubble yesterday evening, by a) assembling a group of friends to play the Schumann Piano Quintet in our front room (th...