Opera houses have long featured singers with one-word names—Farinelli and Senesino, to name but two from centuries past—but of late, opera stars tend to have more mortal, first and last name combos, even if they were known by single names like Caruso, Callas or Pavarotti. One Tuesday night, a one-named singer took the stage at [...]

I’ve been obsessively listening to “The Hounds of Winter,” one of the tracks on If on a Winter’s Night, Sting’s latest CD, a winter-themed album. The song isn’t new—it first came out more than a decade ago on Sting’s Mercury Falling—but it’s a superb new arrangement that pulls several excellent instrumentalists into the mix, including [...]