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Brian Cox hopes new Classic FM show will get listeners looking at the universe

He will join Global’s Classic FM station to host his first Saturday show from 9pm to 10pm for six weeks.

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2024

Simone Young to be first Australian conductor to perform at Bayreuth festival in 147-year history

The Australian conductor will also be the first woman to perform the Ring cycle at the annual celebration of Wagner since it began in 1876

The Guardian - AU · Jan 12, 2024

Bayreuth Festival to have three women conductors, three years after gender barrier broken

The Bayreuth Festival will have three female conductors this summer, three years after the podium gender barrier was broken at the annual showcase of Richard Wagner’s operas

The Independent UK · Jan 11, 2024

'Ring nuts' descend on Australia for epic Wagner opera

Wagner's 15-hour Ring Cycle is being staged in Brisbane for the first time, attracting opera buffs from all over the world.

AAP · Nov 11, 2023

Magnificently terrifying tale of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ soars in grand staging at Lyric Opera

It’s director’s Christopher Alden’s production design that makes a grand impression. Its vertigo-inspiring sets and creepy costumes by Allen Moyer, coupled with lighting by Anne Militello, literally rock the senses as if in a haunting dream.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 25, 2023

A month after Prigozhin’s suspicious death, the Kremlin is silent on his plane crash and legacy

A month after Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a suspicious plane crash, the Kremlin seems to be succeeding in keeping the demise of the profane and outspoken Wagner chief as low-key as possible

The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2023

"The Other Black Girl": Work is a horror

There are no jump scares in Hulu's new thriller, but the dread of being Black in a mainly white industry is real

Salon · Sep 13, 2023

Fall classical music preview: An early-music collaboration and 10 more highlights of the season

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 6, 2023

The Wagner mercenary group's second-in-command is buried in a quiet Moscow ceremony

The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name has been buried at a military cemetery in Moscow

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2023

Who was Dmitry Utkin, a key Wagner mercenary who died alongside Prigozhin?

The secretive war-hardened career-officer-turned-mercenary is said to have given the Wagner group its name.

Al Jazeera · Aug 28, 2023