I’m delighted to announce my appointment as Music Director for Portland Opera. I’m looking forward to continuing this collab with the wonderful orchestra, chorus, guest artists, and colleagues as we continue to shepherd the scintillating world of opera into the 21st century.
Xiaogang Ye is no strange to Classical Explorer: nice to see a whole disc of his chamber music on the Resonus label. This music here, spans over three decades of Ye’s chamber works from 1989 […]
The Greek soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou, a protégée of Barbara Hannigan, has been snapped up by AskonasHolt. Worth it, just for this: In other agency news, HarrisonParrott has signed another Korean who’s still at school. Violinist […]
The Russian soprano will return to London in Turandot next year, at the instigation of incoming music director Jakub Hrusa. Netrebko has been suspended for three years, since the Putin invasion of Ukraine. Her return […]