The Japanese Bach specialist Masaaki Suzuki will direct the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists for the first time next month at St Martin-in-the-Fields, on June 19. The programme is taken from the 1725 cantatas. […]
Stuttgart Ballet has finally parted company with music director Mikhail Agrest, erasing his name from the new season brochure. He was first dismissed in 2021 after dancers complained his tempi were too fast. Since then, […]
The serene and much-recorded Polish concert and opera singer Jadwiga Rappé died this weekend. She performed in most major venues and appeared on 56 recordings, including Wagner with Bernard Haitink and works of Lutoslawski and […]
Frankfurt’s young General Music Director Thomas Guggeis conducted his first Parsifal last night. He is 31. The director, Brigitte Fassbender, was also staging her first Parsifal. She’s 85. It went pretty well, by all accounts. […]
André de RidderCourtesy of English National Opera © Hugo Glendinning English National Opera’s announcement of its 2025/26 season (good news in itself, there is a season and it is far stronger than might have been […]
Bizet: Carmen – Norfolk Into Opera Festival 2023 (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) As Norfolk’s primary schools grapple with an escalating crisis in arts education funding, Anguish’s Educational Foundation and Into Opera are inviting local stakeholders, educators, […]
Bliss’ The Beatitudes performed in Coventry Cathedral for the first time, the building for which it was commissioned and written; Orla Boylan (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, Paul Daniel (conductor) in […]
This release, aptly titled “A Duke Moment”, spotlights music originating from Duke University. The Ciompi Quartet, comprised of professors at Duke, play an interesting program of new and recent works for string quartet by composers […]
The Silver Bell was Saint-Saëns’s first opera, composed in 1864, but it turned out to have a protracted gestation to its first performance in 1877 (the theatre originally expected to host the premiere went bankrupt, and […]
The Berlin Philharmonic has taken issue with comments attributed to its chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko, at last week’s press conference and has requested a correction. The conductor himself (or someone acting on his behalf) has […]
