Music

Frank Sinatra and the Jews

To mark what would have been his centenary year, Frank Sinatra’s biographer reveals the extraordinary connection the singer had to Jews and Israel

'My operatic world beyond Carmen'

It's not every day you meet a notorious femme fatale

Opera's House of Diamonds

The classical composer: It gets my emotional juices flowing

The 'spy' who saved the Proms

Amy, the film: So who is to blame?

The rediscovery of Goldmark

Conducting a triumphant festival debut

Toch, the world's most forgotten composer

Ernst Toch was a celebrated composer with operas in constant rotation, that is until Hitler came to power.