Review: Britten, Opera and Film (Peter Auker)
Auker dives in to discover what makes The Turn of the Screw so cinematic.
June 23, 2025
Review: Nellie Melba: The Legend Lives (Richard Davis)
This life-and-times biography explores Melba as others saw her.
May 19, 2025
In Search of Nijinsky
Jill Rivers talks about meeting Vaslav Nijinsky’s daughter and his decidedly odd grandson while researching her book about the dancer.
May 19, 2025
Review: Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera (Lucy Caplan)
Caplan’s exploration of what she calls “Black operatic counterculture” is quite the game changer.
April 22, 2025
Review: Unveiled (Vincent Fantauzzo)
From delinquent youth to celebrated portrait artist, this is an extraordinary tale.
April 22, 2025
Review: Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Biography (Robert Sholl) / Messiaen in Context (ed. Robert Sholl)
Messiaen’s mysteries are illuminated in these two impressive publications.
March 24, 2025
Review: Gardener of Time: a memoir (Barry Conyngham)
A noteworthy Australian composer explores the musical gardens he has tended.
February 24, 2025
Fine Company
Thomas Edmonds talks to Jansson J. Antmann about life on the opera stage and the people he’s met along the way.
February 24, 2025
Review: My Life in Music (Antonio Pappano)
Insights and revelations abound in an essential read for opera lovers.
February 4, 2025
Review: The Instrumentalist (Harriet Constable)
A ripping yarn about musical women afloat in Vivaldi’s Venice.
December 20, 2024
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November 25, 2024
My Music with Andrew Ford
The composer, writer and broadcaster recalls a childhood full of music, the first time he saw a composer in the flesh and turning a Beatles’ song into a lullaby.
November 25, 2024
Review: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Theodore Albrecht)
This vivid account transports you to 19th-century Vienna.
November 25, 2024