On July 15, 2023 the bandoneon player Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi (*1980) entertained concert goers at the Centro Congressos da Madeira in Funchal in the great season finale, accompanied by...

Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the traditional tango with the help of his knowledge of jazz and classical music, which he had...

Former president Donald Trump’s public and private statements and actions constitute enough evidence to send him to jail....

The aura of Russia’s brutal dictator Vladimir Putin as the untouchable strongman in the Kremlin who, like a puppet master, is masterfully playing one faction of the regime against the...

The West must and easily can outspend Russia in Ukraine. The so-called Franco-German couple must lead and make a much more...

On June 17, 2023 at the invitation of Norberto Gomes, Artistic Director of the Madeira Classical Orchestra, Christoph Poppen...

Italy’s furbissimo ladrone aka Silvio Berlusconi (September 9, 1936 – June 12, 2023) got a state funeral today. He was one of Italy’s richest men. He died a multi-billionaire....

[Today, June 14, 2023 took place Berlusconi’s state funeral in Milan. Therefore, from our archives, part of an article...

The exhibition concept for Cindy Sherman – Anti-Fashion at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart from April 21 until September 10, 2023 was elaborated and realized by Alessandra Nappo...

What took place in Turkey on May 28, 2023 was neither fair nor an election but an “election” farce. Recep Tayyip...

Casablanca is one of the great classic movies thanks to its timeless ingredients: lost love, romance, intrigue, mystery and melodrama set against the background of the Second World War. The...

Instead of an obiturary for Tina Turner, who died at the relatively young age of 83 in her home in Küsnacht (Switzerland), after...

The world needs new classical music compositions in order to renew the genre. The Artistic Director of Madeira Classic Orchestra,...

While I am writing these lines, it remains unclear who will become Turkey’s next president and which parties will have a...

Since 1998 the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira has been performing the island’s Flower Festival Concert. The 2023 edition on...

At 12 rue Cortot in Montmartre, Paris, once lived, worked and and gathered many famous artists. Among them was Auguste Renoir...

Born in Erlangen in 1965, Albrecht Mayer is not only the principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic but, as he told me in...

Some people living today assume that the West has always been leading the world. However, in 2004, John M. Hobson noted in The Eastern Origins of Western Civilizations (Cambridge, p. 272;...

Below the full text / full transcript of the speech by King Charles III at the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany on March 3, 2023. You...

From our archives: Gerhard Richter: Fourty Years of Painting Gerhard Richter had his first New York appearance in May-June 1969...