“CBS News Sunday Morning” has allocated its feelgood slot to the US-born Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt, still working at 98. ‘It’s like intense sex,’ he says, ‘an extremely close relation’. Watch. The post […]
The esteeemed pianist is playing a new piece tomorrow in Barcelona by a Juilliard-trained Catalan composer, Marc Migó. Migó is a John Corigliano student whose work has been performed in Amsterdam and Berlin. He was […]
Aside from the sideshow of the Palestine flag-waver, a leading baritone in the Trovatore cast has lashed out on his Facebook page against the artistic management of the company, particularly at conductor Carlo Rizzi and […]
%20Ali%20Wright.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Old-fashioned drama & a modern gloss: Cecilia Stinton's production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Holland Park with Jennifer France's debut in the title role")
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor – Tabitha Reynolds (ghost), Jennifer France – Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Jennifer France, José de Eça, Morgan Pearse, director: Cecilia Stinton, conductor: Michael Papadopoulos, City […]
A conversation I filmed with the conductor in Zurich, a dozen years ago. A lovely man, lacking in pomposity and self-regard. Enjoy. The post Roger Norrington: I kiss the musicians, then I kick off my […]
The cast member who brandished a Palestine flag at last night’s curtain call for Il trovatore is reported to be Daniel Perry, a self-styled ‘queer dance artist, choreographer/movement director, and DJ’. He is seen on […]
It appears that a member of the cast of Il Trovatore made a pro-Palestine protest during curtain calls for Verdi’s Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House last night. Staff attempts to remove the flag […]
The first conductor at the 2025 festival this week will be Daniele Gatti, rejected as chief conductor at La Scala Milan in favour of Myung Whun Chung. He conducts a new production by Matthias Davids […]
Following on from our coverage of the Britten Pears 2025/26 season yesterday, here are details of this year’s Edinburgh Festival: The Edinburgh International Festival opens on 1 August and features 1700 artists from 42 countries […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: … It’s 1920 where the fun begins. Behind Haba’s cerebral exterior lurks mischief. The fourth of six pieces for piano is a setting of the nursery rhyme ‘1-2-3-4-5, […]
