Sondheim, piano solo
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Baltimore is mired in misery
The orchestra world has known for a while that the Baltimore Symphony is seething with unresolved conflict. The matter started when the concertmaster Jonathan Carney allegedly made a sexual advance to the principal oboist Katharine […]
Baltimore is mired in further misery
The orchestra world has known for a while that the Baltimore Symphony is seething with unresolved conflict. The matter started when the concertmaster Jonathan Carney allegedly made a sexual advance to the principal oboist Katharine […]
Carmen Jones, RIP
In my very early teens, I sneaked into an over-16s ‘A’ film of an all-black casting of Bizet’s opera Carmen. Never having seen Carmen in an opera house, I was overwhelmed and not a little […]
Paris mourns opera chorusmaster, 99
The death is reported of the venerable Jean Laforge, chorusmaster of the Opéra de Paris for three decades and of other major companies for the next 15 years. Laforge entered the Palais Garnier as deputy […]
Planet Hugill featured in FeedSpot Top 60 Opera Blogs
I am never really sure about lists of things, the Top 50 Best whatevers. However, finding out that you are in such a list is terribly seductive, even if you wonder how the list has […]
So who won the Norma war?
Vienna has just seen two productions of Bellini’s opera in a week. The Teater an der Wien had a brilliant cast – Asmik Grigorian, Aigul Akhmetshina, Freddie De Tommaso – and spartan sets. The Vienna […]
New Music Biennial: 20 new works as part of the festival celebrating Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture
For the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the PRS Foundation’s New Music 20×12 showcased a range of short (no longer than 15 minutes) pieces by contemporary music creators. Renamed New Music Biennial, the festival has become a showcase […]
Beset by criticisms of Wagnerisme, Édouard Lalo cried off opera after Le Roi d’Ys but the work itself held the stage and is finally returning to London
Poster for the première performance of Édouard Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys. During the 19th century, many French composers became fascinated by Wagner and his operas. Not every composer managed as balanced an attitude as Gabriel Fauré […]
Italian tenor, 87
The death has been reported in Bologna of the effulgent tenor Romano Emili, a revered and popular figure on Italian stages and in the former East Germany. He retired that magnificent voice in 2004. The […]
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