The small dinner party was assembled in haste at the partly destroyed gothic mansion on Frankfurter Strasse in the week after Kristallnacht. On November 10, 1938, the second night of the ...

Quote this to any British person over the age of 18 and they’ll be momentarily amused, recognizing Peggy Mitchell’s classic “EastEnders” catchphrase, and then turn to confusion. I know because I’ve ...

Able to combine rare musical insight with remarkable resilience, Pauline Tinsley, who has died aged 93, was part of a select but notable band of British opera singers who rose to international ...

Dr. Johnson’s definition of opera, in his dictionary of 1755. as “an exotic and irrational entertainment has always seemed not only agreeably pithy but thoroughly British. Operatic composition has ...

Odyssey Opera’s spring festival of British works got off to an auspicious start last week with a stellar production of Vaughan Williams’s “Sir John in Love,” a rarely spotted but substantial ...

In America, melodramas like Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless, and Days of Our Lives (just to name a few) present the world as a salacious and exciting place, full of illicit affairs and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Google has dedicated its latest doodle to Amanda Aldridge, an Afro-British opera singer and teacher who released more than 30 ...