I am sitting in my yard, contemplating a patio. I wish I could say that I am sitting in my garden, but that would convey an undeserved image of order and beauty. A yard doesn’t become a garden ...

Frederick Delius’s The Magic Fountain is by some margin the most neglected of this year’s main operas at Wexford Festival Opera. It was completed in 1895, first recorded before an invited audience by ...