Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Key player: Joseph Middleton has been in charge of the Leeds Lieder Festival for a decade - Matt Writtle In the world of classical ...

If I have one piece of advice for actors it’s this: stop putting the cart before the horse. Many actors get up at 4 a.m. for auditions multiple times a week and wait for hours in a holding room, only ...

Most pianists who perform with singers don't like to be thought of as playing second fiddle, so to speak. That's why there's a growing trend to do away with the term "accompanist," with its tag-along ...

Michael Pollock dispels the myth that the accompanist's job is just to sit down at the piano and follow the singer. Every time a singer appears in front of an audience he or she exposes in public not ...

Joseph Middleton, the musician behind the Leeds Song Festival, talks about how the ‘lowly’ role took centre stage Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...