Franco Zeffirelli’s slice of paradise in Positano
Villa Treville retains the director’s sense of chutzpah and style
Opera
Tuesday
Wednesday
Go to Cicoria for the food, stay for the opera
The Royal Ballet and Opera’s new restuarant should be a destination, whether or not Tristan und Isolde whets your appetite
Tuesday
How to fix the Met
‘It’s impossible to predict hits,’ said the man paid $1.4 million a year to, well, predict hits
Wednesday
The struggle of the female musician
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad reviewed
Wednesday
No success like failure
Why does no one talk about how most artistic careers end in failure?
Sunday
The wonder of Wagner
There is indeed greatness in much of Wagner’s music. Pace Herr Nietzsche, he could write rhythm
Thursday
‘I was really, really scared’: Jonas Kaufmann opens up about his #MeToo moment
‘Hi, it’s Jonas.’ When the great tenor rings from Vienna, I ask if there are any topics he wants me to avoid, such are his minders’ anxieties. ‘Ask anything,’ laughs Jonas. ‘I’m not shy.’ He is heading in from the airport to see a physio — ‘these concerts, you have to stand there all the time’ — before taking Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook on a seven-city Baedeker tour: Vienna, Paris, London, Essen, Luxemburg, Budapest, Barcelona. I wonder if he is aware that Wolf is a hard sell to English audiences. ‘Not just the English,’ he replies. ‘Even in Germany promoters say to me, please don’t do a Wolf-only recital, no
