NICKY SPENCE is the singer who gave up a £1million recording contract to go back to school and climb to the top his own way. It is a refreshing decision in an era where instant fame is the fantasy but ...

Martinů (pictured left in his American exile in 1943, a a decade and a half before he composed the opera) was displaced himself when he wrote the opera, having left his native Czechoslovakia some ...

This takes an immense amount of planning so when the safety curtains of the world s opera theatres began to crash down earlier this year, we soon knew it would be impossible to mount our planned ...

Nicky Spence has spoken to Classic FM about his aims for the future, as leading names from classical music and opera have been recognised in the King’s birthday honours. Violinist Tasmin Little has ...

Pavel Černoch has withdrawn from singing the tenor part in Dvořák’s The Spectre’s Bride due to illness. He will be replaced by Nicky Spence. Spence made his Royal Opera debut in the 2018/19 Season as ...

Nico Muhly's opera Two Boys will have its North American premiere at the Met October 21, in a production conducted by David Robertson and directed by Bartlett Sher. The two-act opera, which features a ...

With Nicky Spence and Amanda Majeski the striking leads, the nastiness in Shostakovich’s ‘tragic satire’ was disturbing and powerful in an impressive Proms performance Bullying, sexual violence, ...