Category Culture

‘Please go to the shelter NOW!” The text message from our lovely guide comes through at about 1am. She knows I have ignored the countless air-raid warnings that have previously popped up on my phone, but this one, she says,…

The prize-winning Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, 33, has performed in opera houses all over the world, including the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London. Born and raised in Warsaw, where he still lives, he…