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 Venetian musicologist Michele Girardi has died in his home town after a long illness. An international authority on the operas of Puccini, he recently stepped down as chair in the History of Music at […]
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A former scholarship student at Kent State University, the Czech clarinetist Jaroslav Skuta has abandoned a concert tour with his trio after being detained at immigration in Detroit. ‘I was subjected to aggressive, demeaning interrogation […]
