Viola Davis is tired. I know because she has told me – “Let me just be honest, I’m tired,” she says at one point, with all the heartfelt emphasis of those Academy Award-winning eyes – but I also know ...

The Viola genus includes a huge range of plants, from seasonal colourful garden pansies to perennial species. Violas tend to have small flowers and tolerate heat, with a long flowering season from ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For ABC Classic Presenter Ed Le Brocq, the viola has a diamond-like quality and a stunningly ...

Closely related to pansies, violas are pretty perennials that have smaller flowers than their cousins. They come in a wide range of colours, from white to almost black, and everything in between.

It’s the viola’s place inside the textures of string quartets and orchestral music that’s at once its essence and its curse. The curse is built into the acoustic compromise of the viola, which is held ...

"People sometimes think playing the viola is boring," muses Teng Li, the newly appointed principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "Traditionally, the viola has been considered a 'filler' ...

Andrea Amati and Gasparo da Salòwas were the first well-known maker of both violins and violas in the early 16th century. The two instruments are close cousins. Violas have a deeper and mellower sound ...

Viola is a character from Twelfth Night, a play written by William Shakespeare, an English playwright. Twelfth Night is a fast-paced comedy that contains romantic plots, mistaken identities and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s late autumn — viola time. The viola should perhaps be the instrument of summer. Its tone suggests sumptuous ...