I got to know Australian-Italian tenor Aldo di Toro last year, while he was performing the role of Calaf in Puccini’s Turandot in Darmstadt. Born in Australia to Italian immigrants, Aldo […]

How should musicians deal with the pressure that comes with our career? While sportsmen and women have large teams of performance coaches around them, musicians are usually left to deal […]

Dramatic soprano Katrin Gerstenberger joined the ensemble of Staatstheater Darmstadt in 1993, and in 2014 was honoured with the title of Kammersängerin. She was born in Halle in former East […]

It was a pleasure to speak with Alpesh Chauhan for this interview. Alpesh and I both grew up making music in Birmingham, and he was recently appointed Music Director of […]

Sören Eckhoff is one of Germany’s best known choral conductors, and is currently Chorus Master and Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. His distinguished career includes a five year stint at […]