German opera houses are sharing their shock at the unexpected death in Berlin of the highly regarded Rainer Casper. A career-long partner of the director Frank Castorf, he started out at the Volksbühne in Berlin […]
Andris Nelsons will conduct the nine symphonies in four consecutive concerts next month, the first linked cycle since Koussevitsky’s in 1927. Nelsons says: ‘For centuries, the music of Beethoven has brought us together by expressing […]
Tonight, on the US Peacock network, fading reality-TV influencers Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie aim to put together an opera in 30 days. In a three-part series. With opera entrepreneur Beth Morrison. And British composer […]
The music director of the Metropolitan Opera is angling for another night out on the Oscars red carpet. Here’s his film review: nezetseguin: @mariafilmofficial is simply out of this world. On behalf of the opera […]
Maybe Happy Ending and Swept Away I’ve seen two terrific plays this week which I would recommend to any New Yorkers or visitors to New York who might be after a wonderful evening in the theatre. […]
The South African soprano Elza van den Heever, presently in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Met, has let it be known on social media that she’s singing Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Bayreuth […]
Within 24 hours of losing home-grown Natalya Romaniw, the Intermusica agency has signed the Canadian Sondra Radvanovsky, formerly with CSM in Berlin. She’ll be working at IM with Nathan Morrison. The post Soprano comes, soprano […]
The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez lived for sixty years across the border in Baden-Baden and is buried there. Next year is the centenary of his birth. The town of Baden-Baden is planning its […]
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded an initial £452,035 to raise the former Georgian church on Smith Square, built in 1728, to international concerthall standard. The project aims to repair the historic fabric of […]
The British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was checking in on a flight from Cincinnati to Toronto when desk officials told him he could not board the cello. Both he and the cello had fully paid seats […]
