Look what’s popped up on Youtube: complete audio of Jonas Kaufmann’s Winterreise recital at the Konzerthaus, Vienna, 6 April 2013. Helmut Deutsch is at the piano. Apparently JK was not feeling on best form just then – he was recovering from the lurgy t…

A starry cast is set to make waves in La Donna del Lago at Covent Garden. I had a brief chat with the director, John Fulljames, about why he thinks Rossini’s rarity is – well, rare.He thinks it’s all to do with the difficulty of the vocal writing; as f…

Here’s my piece from yesterday’s Independent about what happened to Glyndebourne during World War II. It was transformed into a centre for children evacuated from London’s east end – and that history has now inspired a new staging of Strauss’s Ariadne …