Dr Faustus Click here to subscribe 432 years ago this week, on May 30th 1593, a man died in mysterious circumstances. He was Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan dramatist most famous for Doctor Faustus and for his […]
Edmund Meisel (arr. Morton) Battleship Potemkin Last year, Music in the Round celebrated 40 years, and included a performance of the film L’assassinat du duc de Guise with live music. This year upped the ante, […]
It has been annoucned that the UK-based South African cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe will play a Sunday morning spot at the rock-inconic Glastonbury Festival this summer. He will appear with his Bantu Ensemble with […]
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s new venue is to be known as the Farmer Music Center after $60 million gift from the Farmer Family Foundation. Robert McGrath, CSO President, said: ‘This extraordinary gift … represents a transformative […]
The 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award, worth $50,000, has been allocated by the Met to US soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen. She has been appearing at the Met sinc e 2014. Next seasib she is due to […]
The Telegraph presents what it claims to be ‘the true face of Ludwig van Beethoven’, reimagined by a Brazilian scholar. Scientists created the first-ever 3D reconstruction of the treasured composer’s head by analysing his skull, […]
The overextended Norwegian conductor has found time to commission a new cello for himself and a violin for his girlfriend Amanda Håoy Horn at an Italian luthier in Florence. Amanda now plays in the Oslo […]
We have received this report from Taryn Luterbach, who runs a boutique artist management agency from the town of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada . Regina is a small city of less than 300,000 people, but […]
This is slightly out of the ordinary. A festival in Australia has appointed the concertmaster of the nearest orchestra to be its next director. She is Kate Suthers of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The event […]
A critical sentence on an opera-fan website has entangled Leipzig Oper in a body-shaming storm. The site is deropernfreund.de, the author is Dieter David Scholz and the opera is Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, which ought […]
