Frankfurt’s young General Music Director Thomas Guggeis conducted his first Parsifal last night. He is 31.
The director, Brigitte Fassbender, was also staging her first Parsifal. She’s 85.
It went pretty well, by all accounts.
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Bringing music and the arts to the three most northerly Yorkshire Dales notably Swaledale, Wensleydale and Arkengarthdale, the Swaledale Festival comes round in May. Under the patronage of writer, lecturer and arts advocate Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason […]
HarrisonParrott have nailed down Samuel Lee, Korean winner of the Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen. Lee, 34, is Associate Conductor at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The post Malko winner gets signed appeared first on Slippedisc.
Peter Biggs resigned as CEO of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in April, officially ‘for a number of reasons, including health’. It now transpires that he admitted to his board chair ‘grievous errors of judgment’ […]
