Poster for the première performance of Édouard Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys. During the 19th century, many French composers became fascinated by Wagner and his operas. Not every composer managed as balanced an attitude as Gabriel Fauré […]
The Chicago Symphony has announced that Esteban Batallán is returning as its principal trumpet, ‘following the conclusion of a one-year leave from the Orchestra’. What is doesn’t say is that Batallán joined the Philadelphia Orchestra, […]
Reports are coming in of the death of the Mexican tenor Juan Del Bosco, founder of the Morelia International Summer Opera Festival. A graduate of Manhattan School of Music, Juan sang major opera roles at […]