Tali Barash Gottlieb, Executive Director at Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation and a hugely successful fundraiser, has been named chief executive of the Israel Opera. She has been a fixture at the Israel Phil for 26 […]
Andrew Earis and St Martin’s Voices at church of St Martin in the Fields The 2024/25 season at St Martin in the Fields opens with a more intimate recital in the crypt when tenor Mark […]
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The City Music Foundation’s 2024 CMF Artists (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega) The City Music Foundation (CMF) has announced its latest cohort of artists, its 11th intake. The 2024 CMF Artists are Aleksandra Myslek (collaborative piano), Duo Melus […]
The Romanian Cristian Macelaru who conducted the Orchestre National de France through torrential rain at the Olympic Games opening has tweeted some pictures and impressions. Cristian says: ‘The experience of being at the heart of […]
The Salzburg Festival is putting on performances of a prophetic 1924 film, predicting the upsurge of murderous Viennese antisemitism. The film has been furnished with a musical score by the Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, co-commissioned […]
The Glenn Gould Foundation is to award its 14th annual Glenn Gould Prize to the conductor Gustavo Dudamel at Carnegie Hall on August 2. According to the press release: ‘the presentation coincides with Carnegie Hall’s […]
For the first time this decade, the Bayreuth Festival has sold 100 percent of its tickets. Festival spokesman Hubertus Herrmann told the German Press Agency that there had been a few seats left for Parsifal […]
Two members of the audience collapsed in the first half of last night’s BBC Prom concert. The air-conditioning at the Royal Albert Hall was on full-blast but the atmosphere in the pit was choking. And […]
The Russian state agency Tass reports that Anna Netrebko will star in a new Tosca production in Rome on January 14. The date and place are freighted with significance. Tosca received its premiere on January […]
Roving critic Susan Hall has been to see Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète at Bard College, its first US staging in almost half a century. Worth the wait? by Susan Hall Leon Botstein regularly produces musical works […]
