Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge, Pizarro has secretly imprisoned Florestan in the ...

One of the highlights of Simon Rattle’s 16-year tenure as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic was his final cycle of the Beethoven symphonies (BPHR160091), a set that rightly walked off ...

Ludwig van Beethoven. As he’s creating a puzzle and about to make his Sunday pasta dinner when he gets a call from his sister-in-law, Lucy Betts-Taylor (Anna Maxwell Martin). Lucy grew up with ...