Uncertainty at English National Opera is affecting long-term casting plans. The company says: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Innocent Masuku and Nmon Ford have withdrawn from playing the roles of Nemorino and Belcore respectively in Donizetti’s […]
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 – Lukas Vondracek (Photo: New World Symphony) Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Lukas Vondracek, New World Symphony, Tianyi Lu, Ziwei Ma; New […]
Ermonela Jaho & Carlo Rizzi recording Donizetti for Opera Rara (Photo: Russell Duncan) By and large, Puccini’s operas do not have complex musicological issues surrounding them. He made substantial revisions to Madama Butterfly, but the […]