The Portuguese artist Maria João Pires announced her retirement in 2018, only to bounce back the following year for selected engagements.
This year, turning 80, she is offering a holiday gift recital of Mozart and Debussy. Enjoy!
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The Foundling Hospital chapel where Handel presented Messiah annually Cities change and cities develop. Which means that a festival that seeks to celebrate Handel in the city of his adoption constantly needs to reinvent itself. There are […]
Waterperry Opera Festival, near Oxford, has appointed John Savournin as CEO and Artistic Director from September. Savournin is an active bass-baritone with leading UK opera companies. The post Bass-baritone to run opera festival appeared first […]
The tenor Nicky Spence, subject of the second Lebrecht Interview at 2145 tomorrow night on BBC Radio, had a turbulent childhood which stabilised only when his mother moved with him to Scotland. He started singing, […]
