London Mozart Players is resident at Fairfield Halls, Croydon and performs at Smith Square Hall and on the South coast, but in addition the orchestra launches its 2024/25 season with six concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields. In […]
Adele Thomas Welsh National Opera has announced that opera and theatre director Adele Thomas and creative producer Sarah Crabtree will jointly take up the role of WNO’s General Director and CEO in January 2025, following […]
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – David Ireland, Claire Lees – Garsington Opera, 2024 (Photo: Julian Guidera) Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; David Ireland, Claire Lees, Rafael Fingerlos, Samantha Clarke, Bethany Horak-Hallett, director: John Cox/Bruno […]
Alarming news from St Albans, historic seat of the first British saint: Oliver Morrell, St Albans organ scholar, is moving to Winchester (together with Andrew Lucas) to take up the newly-advertised Sub-Organist position. Tom Winpenny […]
The Chinese pianist was one of the torchbearers for about three minuites ahead of the Paris Olympics yesterday. He wore a jersey marked 33, signifying that these are the 33rd modern Olympic Games. The post […]
Message received: Once a long-time member of the Orchestra of the 18th Century and La Petite Bande as well as first professor of baroque cello at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (1994–2000) – Hidemi Suzuki […]
Message from Placido Domingo: Long live Spain ! Majistral our red Selección Española de Fútbol (SeFutbol) ! Congrats guys! What a privilege to have enjoyed and shared in your well-deserved victory. Thank you Words fail. […]
A correspondent writes: Huge applause for Andrew Lumsden (and Claudia Grinnell) at the conclusion of this afternoon’s ’farewell’ evensong. Congregation of hundreds; wonderful singing – the most musical congregation I’ve ever had the privilege to […]
Welcome to the first podcast by The Watchman, available on Spotify. A full internet magazine will follow shortly, but until then here’s a brief explanation of what The Watchman is, taken from the first issue: […]
The American video artist who work was central to Peter Sellars’ and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s celebrated 2004 Tristan und Isolde, has died of Alzheimers complications aged 73. He started out as a student of the John […]
