Despite its curtain raising rather late in the year, Shanghai's new opera house has elbowed its way to the front row of ...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold famously wrote music for films and, in a sense, the 20th century was his largest score. The Austrian Jewish composer lived and worked through times of profound upheaval: two ...

November in the Coachella Valley is all about the desert roaring back into full swing, and we've got a month full of exciting ...

What makes a good Italian restaurant in Singapore? Is it the authenticity, or is it simply how good you felt while dining there? I would vote for the latter. Despite adding a local touch, there are ...

The Best Italian Restaurants in MelbourneA Venetian-inspired diner, a northern Italian spot with its own “pasta lab”, a Melbourne icon around since '86 and many more. There’s no denying Melbourne ...

The Chevalier de Saint-Georges fencing with cross-dressing French diplomat and spy the Chevalière d’Éon, as depicted in a 1789 painting by Abbé Alexandre-Auguste Robineau Just as a new film about the ...

Operetta was still so popular that there were two amateur companies, competing with each other in our small provincial Flemish town. As soon as I could read, one of my tasks was to rehearse my ...

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