The Wagner Festival was supposed to celebrate 150 years since its 1876 foundation with a blaze of glory. Instead, tightened budgets and lower attendance this year have prompted a rethink. The 2026 season, announced yesterday, […]
How, in ‘80s Dublin, does a 16-year old boy impress a pretty girl? Thinking fast, Conor tells her he’s starting a band and he wants her to star in the video. That’s Sing Street, the […]
After a couple of Opera Rara Donizetti song posts (Volume 1; Volume 4), and previous posts on the release of Donizetti’s Three Queens, Il Paria and L’ange de Nisida, plus a live Elixir at ENO […]
The much-loved conductor, who died in December 2019, has been honoured by his home state of Latvia with a postage stamp in his memory. Mariss was music director of the Oslo Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Concertgebouw […]
The hard-talk interview is back this Saturday night on Radio 3, straight after the Proms. First into the hot seat is cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who talks of trick-and-treating on her debut day, playing with Type-1 […]
The London Symphony Orchestra has notified us of the death of Brian Clarke, its co-principal viola from 1970 to 1999. Brian, who was 92, came from a mining family in Rotherham, Yorkshire. He won his […]
There is a present and immediate threat that the rare Brazilian wood used in the making of bows for stringed instruments is about to be listed under the highest level of protection. Eva-Maria Tomasi of […]
On the second night of its two-performance visit to City Center Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo presented Vincenzo Bellini’s melodramatic La Sonnambula. Set in an early-19th-century Swiss Alpine village, the story is frequently criticized for its […]
Tommy Rall Obviously, once his dancing career was over, Bob Fosse became the seminal show choreographer of the 20th century. But if you haven’t heard of Tommy Rall, you’re not alone. Any fan of Fred […]
Michael Tilson Thomas is still pulling them in. Or vice-versa. The retired conductor went to see Paul Simon play at San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall. The post New member of the MTT fan club appeared […]
