The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra played out their British conductor Daniel Harding after 19 years with a version of the hymn that included snatches of Mahler, Sibelius, Dvorak and Wagner… lovely!
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Agnes Baltsa, Lifetime Achievement Award winner International Opera Awards 2025 – (Photo: GNO/Simopoulos) ‘Tis the season for awards. Hot on the heels of the Ivors Classical Awards [see my article] comes the International Opera Awards […]
James Blades The percussionist James Blades (1901-1999) had a career that not only spanned much of the century but also moved from circus drummer and accompanist to silent movies at the Wisbech Hippodrome, to the […]
The Royal Opera in Stockholm has a new artistic director, replacing Michael Cavanagh, who died suddenly in March. His successor is Tobias Theorell, presently in the same job at Stockholm’s secondary Folkoperan. The post […]
