We have been notified of the death of Howard Crook, a lyric tenor from Rutherford, New Jersey, who became a staple of the early-music scene in Paris.
He appeared in operas by Lully, Rameau, Haydn and Mozart and recorded with such conductors as John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, Roger Norrington, William Christie and Marc Minkowski.
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The populist tenor Russell Watson has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Greater Manchester ‘in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music and the arts’. Watson, 59, has survived two brain tumours. […]
Go on, then. Give us a better caption. Sunny, from Vienna, studies at the Universität Mozarteum. The post So shocked I fell off my piano appeared first on Slippedisc.
Message from the Russian soprano’s people: Anna Netrebko is unfortunately obliged to withdraw from her two performances of Aida at the Arena di Verona this summer for personal reasons. “I sincerely regret the inconvenience this […]
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