“I wanted to create a project that I wished had existed when I started out singing,” Costello says. “A group that’s really focused on getting singers opportunities, and a community centered around ...

Who do they think they are, these people who want to teach us our trade? We know it ever so much better than they do. Let composers stick to their méetier and let us do ours! Composers who write out ...

The Met’s new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s I PURITANI made its debut on New Year’s Eve, but I caught up with it at its third performance on January 6. I was glad I did--because it offered a cast ...

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books, including the National Book Award finalist, “The Giant’s House.” She’s been on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and holds the James A.

The Sinfonietta Bel Canto is hosting its annual New Year’s and Fundraising Concert at 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 1, at St. Paul United Church of Christ in Downers Grove. Under the master baton of Maestro ...

Christopher Ward shocked the watch industry and radically remade its brand image when it launched the Bel Canto in 2023. Here was a chiming watch — typically the domain of six-figure mega grails from ...

Christopher Ward has just unveiled a new version of its Bel Canto. This one is all about the lume, with a Globolight dial surround and hand tips. Every once in a while, the watch industry sees ...

Christopher Ward today introduces the C1 Bel Canto Lumière, a new take on its award-winning chiming watch that places light and legibility at the centre of the design. Christoper Ward. The 41mm watch ...

It’s time for a confession: I have never been smitten with the Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto. While I greatly respect the watch’s impressive technical prowess and commercial success, for me, it’s more ...

The expression bel canto, Italian for “beautiful singing,” brings to mind a golden age of vocal artistry that left a memorable mark on the history of opera and vocal performance. Though often used ...

At the very high end of the market for watches, as with automobiles, lies the total abandon­ment of value. Time telling and transportation are secondary concerns in this stratosphere. Up here, no one ...