Importance of Being Earnest
Is there a funnier opera than Gerald Barry’s Importance of Being Earnest?
Alexandra Coghlan 9 April 2016 9:00 am
Comic opera is no laughing matter. Seriously, when was the last time you laughed out loud in the opera house?…
The rotten fruits of Peter Maxwell Davies’s modernism
Peter Phillips 9 April 2016 9:00 am
The intransigence of Maxwell Davies, Boulez and Stockhausen is coming home to roost. Here were three composers, famous if not…