Belarusian soprano Nadine Koutcher thrilled audiences at the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World this month, and her glittering performances (and astonishing high notes) throughout the competition led her to the Main Prize. Though already an experienced performer on the

The name of composer Domenico Zipoli may not be familiar to our regular readers. But a recent UK-based project, The Imperfect Pearl, has committed to presenting this composer’s extraordinary music and even more remarkable life story. The project, inspired by

The Berlin Barock Solisten (The Berlin Baroque Soloists) are coming to Hong Kong and this very interesting offshoot of the Berlin Philharmonic brings a top-level Baroque ensemble that also carries a modern top-level orchestral sensibility.

Italian basso Riccardo Zanellato will join Sumi Jo and Elīna Garanča in the Fifth Anniversary Gala of the Guangzhou Opera House in May. This isn’t his first appearance in the region, having sung in Hong Kong and Taipei in the

Korean coloratura soprano Sumi Jo made her reputation in Europe starting in the late 1980s with appearances at the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. She will be appearing at the Guangzhou Opera House in May

Born in Düsseldorf to a musical family, pianist Florian Uhlig is yet in every way resembling an English gentleman. Although he was impressed by pianist Pascal Devoyon’s beauty of tone that led him to Paris to play for him, it

Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča’s appearance at the Guangzhou Opera House’s Five Year Anniversary concert marks her first appearance in Asia and she told us how excited she was to make this trip, particularly as she was looking forward to meeting China’s

We were speaking with tenor Adam Diegel as he was in the area to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Guangzhou Opera House. We asked him a few questions about how he got into opera, what he would suggest for