FROM ROME: Keep in touch with the Italian opera and classical music scene by reading Giuseppe Pennisi's regular reports.
VIDEO PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Youth Involvement in Classical Music - this specially extended illustrated feature includes contributions from Christopher Morley, Gerald Fenech, Halida Dinova, Patricia Spencer and Roderic Dunnett.
Mark Berry is Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, London University. An intellectual and musical historian, his research and teaching interests extend from the late seventeenth century to the present day. He is the author of Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner's 'Ring' (Ashgate, 2006). After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from 'Parsifal' to Nono will be published by Boydell & Brewer in 2014.
Mark Berry experiences English National Opera's 'Madama Butterfly'