Editor's picks
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Gergiev's credibility has been shot to pieces
Comment: Can - and should - we distinguish between Gergiev's political and artistic beliefs? I don't think we can anymore, writes Philip Clark
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The Age of Enlightenment
Interview: Simon McBurney thought operas were obscure, wooden and pointless. So what made him agree to direct The Magic Flute? Stuart Jeffries finds out -
The Rest is Noise: Superpower
The US in the 60s and 70s saw bold new music coming not just from the so-called minimalists, but also from the likes of Bernard Herrmann and Stephen Sondheim, writes Gillian Moore -
T is for Tannhäuser
A to Z of Wagner: An early opera that has corking tunes and a very silly plot. Staged with tongue firmly in the cheek, it can be magnificent -
Strictly Britten
Britten's music, with its sense of physical movement, can translate into absorbing ballet, says the founder of the Richard Alston Dance Company
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