Anything Jonas Kaufmann can do

Italy’s only aircraft carrier, the Giuseppe Garibaldi, is planning to stage an opera on deck. Singers will make their entrance by helicopter. Read here. The post Madama Butterfly on a battleship appeared first on Slippedisc.

Stage in the small hall of the Concertgebouw, with a capacity of just 450, the concert reveals great intensity on the paty of the audience and musicians alike. They played works by Debussy and Ben-Haim. […]

It was the black year of 1968 when conductor Agnieszka Duczmal founded the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. On the streets, students and workers went on strike and the antisemitic Communist government blamed the Jews, forcing thousands […]