On a recent evening, while the rest of the world was glued to the spectacle of bombs raining down on Baghdad, I found myself enthralled by the spectacle of a young man seated at a piano in the elegant paneled library of the Lotos Club. The occasion was a fund-raising gala for the Music Festival Read More
On a recent evening, while the rest of the world was glued to the spectacle of bombs raining down on Baghdad, I found myself enthralled by the spectacle of a young man seated at a piano in the elegant paneled library of the Lotos Club. The occasion was a fund-raising gala for the Music Festival Read More
Opera-the most problematic of entertainments-is also the art form
most capable of breathing fresh life into a historical episode, a buried myth
or a work of literature through the transforming powers of musical imagination,
theatrical compression and live, flesh-and-blood performance. An unexpected
demonstration of just how potent this alchemy can be took place at the Read More
