Joan Sutherland in 1975: Opera gave her a glamour and status she had never imagined having Her Mad Scene had an escapist quality that I don’t remember anyone else equalling for me - the way she chased ...

Last year I was at the convention of the Association of British Choral Directors in York and, at the end of a long day and ...

Earlier this year Marty Gleeson was the first Irish woman to win best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

The stars in this rating are all down to the musical quality of the performance and the abilities of the singers – a leading ...

Lise de la Salle was not the soloist the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover originally planned to bring with them to open their ...

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

I have to confess I was deeply sceptical that Haruki Murakami’s 1985 magical realist novel would work on stage. The plot, ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...

It all began over a decade ago when Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant simultaneously read mathematician Andrew Hodges’ biography of ...

Hail, Mary, full of Grace”, the first words uttered by Gabriel to Mary in Luke's account of the Annunciation, are not heard ...