From an article by the singer Ian Bostridge in Prospect magazine: I only met Pierre Boulez (born 1925) once, and the circumstances were not propitious. Back in 2010, I’d been asked to sing in Stravinsky’s […]
Our renowned ballet reviewer had an unusually bad night: MaddAddam, Wayne McGregor’s Timidly Clichéd Dystopia by Alastair Macaulay In Wayne McGregor’s new three-act “MaddAddam”, the Royal Ballet has chosen to present us with […]
We hear that Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has won the principal flute audition at the Berllin Philharmonic. An announcement is forthcoming later today. Stefán will succeed Sebastian Jacot, who failed to […]