Losing her sight at a young age didn’t prevent Paradis from having an extraordinary career as a singer, pianist and composer. In 1784, the first school for the blind, the Institute for Blind Youth, ...

At the heart of the Vienna that we recognise as the capital city of the classical era, two towering figures dominate the scene. Joseph Haydn, known as the father of the symphony, was one. Mozart was ...

Maria Theresia von Paradis’s piano bewitched the Viennese court – but she was tormented by quacks proffering remedies she didn’t need. Now a disabled theatre team are turning her life into opera ...