On the day of the Met opening of Jake Heggie’s opera, Peter Mattei phoned in sick.
Thomas Glass, winner of the 2019 National Council Auditions, was summoned to jump in.
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The former music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, which resides at the Kennedy Center, has responded to a Washington Post article criticising President Trump’s takeover. Slatkin writes: ‘I am reminded of what Leonard Bernstein […]
Three unexploded World War Two bombs have caused the cancellation of tonight’s WDR Symphony concert in Cologne. The whole town centre has been shut off since eight this morning, with some 200,000 residents evacuated. It […]
The Italian-US tenor Lando Bartolini, who died today, had a rags trade to riches story. Unhappy working in his family’s textile factory in Prato, he moved to Philadelphia in 1966 and started taking voice lessons […]
