The half-banned Russian soprano will singer her first Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera in the coming season at Staatsoper under den Linden, rolled out yesterday by her loyal supporter, Christian Thielemann.
The newly installed music director will conduct Wagner’s Ring. Simon Keenlyside will sing Wozzeck. Roberto Alagna and Aigul Akhmetshina will appear in the haircut opera, Samson et Dalila.
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The Czech composer is known chiefly as a prophet of microtonality. So how do you play him on a piano, with only whole abd half tones? Here’s how. Sounds a bit honky-tonk. The record is […]
Message received from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis: Today, Opera Theatre is excited to announce that we are under contract for the purchase of a 6.67-acre parcel of land upon which we plan to build […]
The venerable Wilhelm Brückner, who built some 350 violins, violas and cellos over seven decades, has died in Erfurt, Thuringia, aged 92. He made his first instrument at 15. The family tradition continues through his […]
