We have been informed of the death of the Italian bass-baritone Angelo Nardinocchi, always in the first cast for Rigoletto and a summer fixture at the Arena di Verona.
He was also knwon for Leporello in Don Giovanni, the Sacristan in Tosca, Alcindoro and Benoit in La boheme.
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He’s not 70 til Sunday but the Big Berthas of German industry this morning awarded him the 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. He will receive 250,000 Euros. Three composers – the Iranian Canadian Ashkan […]
Meet Chloe Higgins. She has just won the principal tuba seat in the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, in Perth. Blow the winds, southerly. The post New Year, new tubist appeared first on Slippedisc.
Charlie Chaplin When he died, in December, 1977, he was Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Knight of the British Empire, but he was born 136 years ago on 16th April 1889 as plain Charlie Chaplin in […]
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