Whilst working with my colleague and friend, baritone Gerald Finley, on a production of Bluebeard’s Castle that he was singing at the Met, in between rehearsals I was also spending time with my ageing ...

To hear the pianist Julius Drake play “Die Schöne Müllerin” is to ponder whether Schubert's work is actually a song cycle for piano with vocal accompaniment, instead of the inverse. On a new recording ...

Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in “Le Nozze di Figaro.” By Zachary Woolfe John Adams’s Shakespeare ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Canadian baritone Gerald Finley began his operatic career as a birdcatcher in Mozart's "Magic Flute." He's graduated to bombmaker -- atomic ones. Finley, 48, is the lead in ...

Although Montreal-born baritone Gerald Finley has only in recent years ascended to the operatic first string with his portrayal of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams' "Doctor Atomic" (which ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Songs of Travel" wend through the English countryside with a resolve that seems a little quaint a century later, and the texts by Robert Louis Stevenson summon familiar ...