Starting with Brahms’s late Four Serious Songs, the mezzo-soprano moved through a quartet of Tchaikovsky songs and Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos cantata to a selection of much-loved Schubert numbers and, to ...

No one wants to see general director Anthony Freud on the stage of Lyric Opera before the curtain rises, but on opening night of Ariodante last Saturday, there he was again, bringing the news that ...

Coote was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, the daughter of the painter Mark Coote. She was educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (though she did not complete her course), the Royal ...

Massenet’s operatic take on the classic fairy tale Cinderella, starring Joyce DiDonato as the titular heroine and Alice Coote as Prince Charming, alongside Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother and ...