The following piece of propaganda has been posted by Lorenzo Viotti, departing music director of Dutch National Opera.
The impulsive Swiss conductor, whose image can be seen at the top of the post, might be required to explain his action.
He has since taken down the post from his feed.
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Italy’s only aircraft carrier, the Giuseppe Garibaldi, is planning to stage an opera on deck. Singers will make their entrance by helicopter. Read here. The post Madama Butterfly on a battleship appeared first on Slippedisc.
Another Canadian orchestra has plumped for a Canadian conductor. Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra has installed Simon Rivard, starting this month. Rivard, 35, is from Montreal and he’s also MD of Edmonton Opera and the Orchestre de […]
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. […]
