The 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award, worth $50,000, has been allocated by the Met to US soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen. She has been appearing at the Met sinc e 2014.
Next seasib she is due to protray Richard Strauss’s Arabella.
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The Divertimento Symphony Orchestra was conducted at the Olympics closing ceremony by its founder Zahia Ziouani. She’s French-Algerian, born in Paris in 1978, twin sister of the cellist Fettouma Ziouani. Benjamin Bernheim sang Fauré’s Hymn […]
This weekend will mark 70 years since the death of Wilhelm Furtwängler, on November 30, 1954. While his political decisions remain contentious, his importance as a conductor has only increased. No musician in his time, […]
In 1964, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times called Stanley Kubrick’s movie Dr Strangelove, “the most shattering sick joke I’ve ever come across”. The almost slavishly admiring stage production currently at the Noel Coward Theatre lives […]
