Excelsior, Turandot, Bayadère: Great ballets and operas inspire new Armani Casa innovative wallpapers

    Armani luxury house found inspiration in famous operas and ballets. The result is a new collection of Armani Casa wallpapers. Named after the last opera by Giacomo Puccini, the Armani Casa Turandot wallpaper texture in relief is obtained thanks an accurate screen printing process directly on silk fibers that uses 3D-expanding inks, an … Read more

Grand Pas Classique: Chanel for Paris Opera Ballet 2021

    Chanel puts once again its vision to the service of dance with dreamlike costumes for Paris Opera Ballet 2021. Dance is at the heart of CHANEL’s heritage: friend and patron of Serge Diaghilev, the Ballets russes founder, Gabrielle Chanel put her vision to the service of dance by creating costumes for several ballets, … Read more

‘Quarantine soirees’: classical music and opera to stream at home

With concert halls and opera houses closed due to coronavirus, organisations and musicians across the world are live-streaming concerts from their homes, or from empty halls, and opening up their digital archives so that every one can still access music. Click here for our daily critics’ picks

Viva la diva! Culture meets couture as opera chic takes off

Long gloves and dramatic coats have featured on catwalks and red carpets, with designers also turning their hands to stage costumes

2017 in review: Andrew Clement’s top 10 classical CDs

From some delightful Debussy to a bewitching Berlioz opera, via a scintillating set of Schubert sonatas, here are the recordings that stood out this year

Step inside Butterfly’s house in virtual reality opera night

Arts are embracing cutting-edge tech in Puccini production