You don’t have to dumb down music for children, says Dame Liz Forgan, the chair of Arts Council England, quoted by Charlotte Higgins in The Guardian.
“Start them off on Wagner: that is the unapologetic advice of the chair of Arts…
Although some of the news from the Metropolitan Opera has been on the grim side this year — for example, next season’s anticipated-but-expensive revival of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles was canceled in favor of a safer, cheaper bet —…
If you should someday find yourself running an opera company, keep this in mind: Don’t ever put a choreographer in charge of an entire production, unless dance is really all you care about. (And in that case, you should be…
Rising star Kelly Kaduce is in town to sing two concerts with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Friday night in Powell Symphony Hall, and Sunday afternoon at the Touhill. The soprano will perform arias by Puccini and Verdi. (The orchestra…
