From a reader: Saturday’s performance of Saul had to be abandoned minutes before the final curtain because of a power outage. The announcements from the stage were almost inaudible from my seat in the Upper […]
Handel: Rodelinda – Lucy Crowe – Garsington Opera (Photo: courtesy Garsington Opera) Handel: Rodelinda; Lucy Crowe, Tim Mead, Ed Lyon, Brandon Cedel, Marvic Monreal, Hugh Cutting, director: Ruth Knight, the English Concert, conductor: Peter Whelan; […]
We have been notified of the passing of Stuat Burrows, a leading internmational tenor who had his own BBC series for two seasons, Stuart Burrows Sings. Starting out most in concert performances, he made his […]
The Austrian-US drimmer and composer Lukas Ligeti has signed to Edition Peters, which is part of Wise Music Group. Ligeti, 60, is presnetly professor of music in Brussels. “Lukas Ligeti is an artist whose creativity […]
The retired coductor Michael Tilson Thomas has been showing CBS’s 60 Minutes how it’s done. Enjoy. He does. The post MTT gives TV conducting lesson appeared first on Slippedisc.
From an article by Dalya Alberge in today’s Sunday Telegraph: ENO faces call to cancel the contract of André de Ridder, who said he was ‘very excited’ to be joining the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra […]
From my latest monthly essay in The Critic, out now: One morning in 2007 I knocked at the door of a Berlin villa and was admitted by staff. I was shown into a music room whose […]
Philippe Jordan last night conducted his final appearance as music director at the Vienna State Opera and says he won’t be back in the forseeable future. No successor has been named. It has been reported […]
The Barber of Seville opened at the Opéra de Paris last nigtht without its intended Rosina. The Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina was unable to obtain a visa in time to enter France. She says: Dear […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I don’t want to make music any more. I go up on stage every day, tune up with my colleagues, look out into the festival audience – and don’t […]
