Joyce DiDonatao Mary Stuart, Cleopatra, Armide… the American mezzo talks to Neil Fisher about tackling some of opera's most fearsome royal roles
Mozart's The Magic Flute Astrologer Shelley von Strunckel reveals the mystical secrets beneath the opera's surface
Tchaikovsky Jeremy Siepmann on the life and times of Russia's great 19th-century Romantic composer
Musicians behaving badly From a murderous Berlioz to an alcoholic Sibelius and hot-tempered Vivaldi, we grass on music's bad boys
Plus on your free CD Olivier Messiaen's La nativité du Seigneur. Naji Hakim plays the composer's organ at the Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris
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