Acclaimed British impressionist, comic, actor, Satie fan and keen amateur pianist, Alistair McGowan shares his passion for the piano and reveals how he prepared for his debut recording.

We caught up with Maestro Riccardo Frizza who is currently in Tokyo in rehearsals for La Traviata at the New National Theatre. The production, which opens on 16 November, is part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the house. This

Rumiko Hasegawa listened all the comments she received from the people who had come to opera performances and had a bad experience: it’s so unfamiliar, it takes too long, the language is incomprehensible, the story is strange; I don’t know

Tenor Riccardo Massi takes the world’s stages in the most heroic of roles: Radamès in Aida, Don José in Carmen, Calaf in Turandot, but for the years while he was studying voice, he took to the cinema screen in other

We first heard Thomas Lennartz at the helm of his old organ – the magnificent Silbermann organ (built ca 1750-51) in the Dresden Cathedral (Katholische Hofkirche). Old organ in two ways -one is its age, remembering that Silbermann had been

Rachel Cheung, a young pianist who started her training at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts (HKAPA) and continued at the Yale School of Music, put Hong Kong on the performing stage this year with her position as a

The sky it carries wonderful things Like the stars and the sun. It makes a place for the birds to fly free. And a place for us to gaze up at. I don’t know what we would have Done without

Puerto Rican / Spanish tenor Joel Prieto began his professional career 11 years ago and has moved from triumph to triumph. Early videos show his 2013 recital at Wigmore Hall in London, his performance in Vienna for Christmas that same