Anna Lapwood is disengaged

Today’s season announcement by Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie features a triple offering: The self-confessed »Elphi« fan Sir Simon Rattle is set to return three times this season – conducting Mahler’s »Resurrection Symphony« with the Bavarian Radio Symphony […]

The French label has signed the French-Swiss mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti whose voice floated high above the Olympics opening show in Paris last weekend. Viotti, 38, dressed for that occasion as a female pirate. She is […]

From an interview with Bruce Duffie in 2005: Many young conductors come up and ask for advice.  It is hard, you know.  The first thing is that real talent needs not so much advice.  It […]