I always call early opera “looseleaf opera” because the score you end up with for the production is never the same as what you had on day one. Monteverdi, like Indian classical musicians, would have ...

Traumatised by the Second World War, my Italian nonno [grandfather] found peace working in his suburban Australian veggie patch while blasting opera out the back window. We weren’t a musical family, ...

Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too When did ...

There is a considerable wealth of classical music and opera in Wales. The popular perception of a tradition of the harp and the male voice choir is a long way from the 21st century reality of a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fall Preview Malcolm X at the Met. Jaap van Zweden’s farewell to the New York Philharmonic. Premieres by Kate Soper and Ted Hearne. It’s shaping up to ...

Opera is the most classical and traditional form of singing ever developed. The art form, which began in Italy, is now over 400 years old, and includes thousands of operas in most of the Western ...