The Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna becomes a stage once again on 8 and 9 November for Memorare ’26, a meditation in dance, music and song built around Saint Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the ...

The power of music lies in its ability to speak to all aspects of the human being – the animal, the emotional, the intellectual, and the spiritual. Music teaches us, in short, that everything is ...

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

I love Ballo, which is as nearly perfect an opera as one is likely to find. – Georg Solti, Memoirs (Knopf), 1997 Themes: admiration, music, perfection | Art form: Opera ...

I’ve had such an amazing career. I don’t want to hear my voice – it is in the past. – Kiri Te Kanawa, BBC interview announcing her retirement, 2017 Themes: career, impermanence, life | Art form: Opera ...

– Richard Strauss, Letter to Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 5 June 1916; A Working Friendship (Vienna House, 1961), p. 251 ...

I attended the class for only two years, but I needed five years of practical conducting experience before I managed to unlearn what he had taught me. – Georg Solti, Memoirs (Knopf), 1997 Themes: ...

Two bilingual monographs edited by Vittoria Crespi Morbio follow Zeffirelli from his witty Piccola Scala debuts to the landmark 1963 La bohème, and Bouchène from the school of Benois to the living ...