The much-recorded Valerie Tryon passed 90 last month without fuss.
She has lived in Canada since 1976 and is being celebrated this week at a concert at McMaster University.
Details here.
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The bass-baritone Alfred Kuhn died this weekend at 86. He sang 15 years in Darmstadt, five in Düsseldorf and 30 at Bavarian State Opera, where he was a fixture as Antonio in The Marriage of […]
Metamorphosen, for strings alone, contemplates the world after the end of his world, in 1945. The post 80 years ago: Richard Strauss surveys his country’s ruin appeared first on Slippedisc.
We’re hearing breath-stopping accounts of the Rosenkavalier revival at La Scala, conducted by Kirill Petrenko of the Berlin Philharmonic in his first appearance at the matrix of Italian opera. Giornale della Musica reports ‘endless applause’ […]
