David Yearsley

Cryptocurrency is the new alchemy. You can’t hold Ethereum or bite into a Bitcoin. Modern miners create virtual gold out of nothing. While the alchemists

The Chiaroscuro Quartet was founded in 2005 at London’s Royal College of Music by four young string players who shared a fascination with and commitment

Benjamin Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream with members the Children's Choirs of the Deutsche Oper and Jami Reid-Quarrell as Puck (photo: Deutsche Oper).

The last in the series of European spring holidays brought with it another long weekend. The occasion was Pentecost, when the mighty gusts of the Holy

With a first name that advertises its kinship with marauding Nordic forbears and sporting a rakish diacritic at the start of the patronymic that follows,

Richard Gowers (front right) with Jakub Hrůša, conductor, and brass players of the Berlin Philharmonic. Photo: David Yearsley.

A series of interlocking encounters with memorials both musical and physical, Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of

A dandelion grows in the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Photo: David Yearsley.

Cast of Mokka-Hits und Milchbar-Träume, Komische Oper Berlin. Photo: Jan Windszus.

“Opera for All” at a Fourth of July performance of Wagner's The Valkyrie at the Bavarian State Opera. Photo credit: David Yearsley.