Timpani legend dies
Franck Rabbio writes: It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce the passing of my father, Salvatore Rabbio, who died Monday night at the age of 90. Sal was the Principal Timpanist […]
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Houston Grand Opera Announces New Partnership with London Symphony Orchestra
Company launches its own label and will collaborate with LSO Live on new recordings of HGO performances HOUSTON—May 14, 2025—Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is proud to announce a new partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra […]
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Announces 2025-26 Season
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic today announces its highly anticipated 2025-26 season. This season marks the 185th anniversary of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and welcomes new Chief Executive, Vanessa Reed. General booking opens on Wednesday 28 May, […]
Evgeny Kissin: I played wrong notes at my Carnegie Hall debut
The ex-Russian pianist joins David Krauss this week for Speaking Soundly. Kissin, the precisionist, admits to bring human. He makes mistajes like everyone else. On one occasion he ran out of encores and the audience […]
Berlin mourns opera fan, 104
Message from Staatsoper Unter den Linden: Margot Friedländer (1921-2025) With Margot Friedländer, an extraordinary personality has died. In an impressive way, she testified to the horrors of the Holocaust and the crimes of the National […]
English National Opera announces new Music Director and 2025/26 Season
André de Ridder appointed as ENO’s Music Director, with his first conducting engagement as Music Director Designate in February 2026.The 2025/26 Season includes 12 productions and concerts across London and Greater Manchester, featuring 5 new […]
Baton round: Young Dane gets German opera house
Newly installed as chief conductor of Danish National Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Øland was installed today as GMD in Magdeburg, starting in August. He’s 30, a graduate of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The post Baton […]
Broken English National Opera chooses German music director
The music director in Freiburg am Breisgau, André de Ridder, was today named music director of English National Opera. He starts in autumn 2027, by which time there may not be much left of the […]
Neumeier’s ballet company spirals into chaos
Der Spiegel reports that 36 of the 63 dancers of the Hamburg Ballet have written to the cultural senator complaining about ‘a toxic working environment’. Five of the 11 First Soloists have resigned after falling […]
Ex-addict wins national singing award
The Leonie Sonnings Talent Awards are the biggest thing in Danish opera. This year’s winner, announced this morning, is a young soprano at at the Royal Danish Opera who was the subject of a TV […]
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