The small dinner party was assembled in haste at the partly destroyed gothic mansion on Frankfurter Strasse in the week after Kristallnacht. On November 10, 1938, the second night of the ...

Odyssey Opera’s spring festival of British works got off to an auspicious start last week with a stellar production of Vaughan Williams’s “Sir John in Love,” a rarely spotted but substantial ...

Quote this to any British person over the age of 18 and they’ll be momentarily amused, recognizing Peggy Mitchell’s classic “EastEnders” catchphrase, and then turn to confusion. I know because I’ve ...

Google has dedicated its latest doodle to Amanda Aldridge, an Afro-British opera singer and teacher who released more than 30 songs and dozens of instrumental tracks in the 1800s. The tech giant ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The Glyndebourne Festival, which receives little government support, has been mostly immune from recent convulsions of the opera industry in Britain. A picnic ...

The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO), one of Britain’s most prestigious arts institutions, has canceled its planned production of “Tosca” in Israel after a widespread staff backlash. In a recent open ...

The Arts Council’s contempt for this centuries-old artform has proved disastrous Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former Controller of Radio 3, Director of the ...