Although Wales and Scotland’s encounter in Cardiff’s Principality stadium is postponed until… well, until sometime, neither Wales nor Scotland are in the final reckoning anyway for the Six Nations, Wales having lost three of their four games and Scotland two of their four. When the match is played it will have an old-fashioned feel, taking us back to the days when each game in what was then the Five Nations seemed of equal importance, an event in its own right, no matter where teams stood in the table.
The success of the International Opera Awards is intellectual rigour
At the awards ceremony in Munich this year, a jury dug deep into the purpose of opera and its impact on society.Â