Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress – Adam Temple-Smith, Michael Mofidian – The Grange Festival (Photo: Craig Fuller) June on Planet Hugill: Holland Park, the Grange, Aldeburgh, Glyndebourne and beyond. Our latest newsletter has landed on MadMimi and on […]
A French court has sentenced the cornet player and early-music leader Jean Tubéry to six months in prison, suspended, and three years’ ineligibility for public office. He was found guilty of ‘repeatedly imposed comments with […]
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Now this is intriguing. Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Scots Opera Project are teaming up for a production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in an exciting new Scottish Gaelic and Scots Language version! David Douglas directs with a Scots […]
Temple Church The Temple Music Foundation’s 2024/25 season offers the opportunity to hear a diverse range of music in a variety of spaces in and around Temple. Things kick off with Siren Duo (Claire Wickes, […]
Vienna Opera Festival 2023 Despite its name, the Vienna Opera Festival (Wiener Festpiele) was only founded in 2019 by tenor Jesus Leon with music director Toby Purser. The festival puts on a Summer season (mid-July […]
Message just in from the EUYO – The European Union Youth Orchestra: We proudly announce our new music director Iván Fischer. This August, Maestro Fischer will open our #2024summertour at Grafenegg, followed by touring to […]
For the third time, the Times has published a glorious encomium to the Boston Symphony boss, Chad Smith: Sneaking through the shrubbery, however, was the light breeze of change. Chad Smith, the Boston Symphony’s ambitious […]
Kim Noltemy started work yesterday as president and CEO of the troubled Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is the fourth to take the helm since Deborah Borda left in 2017 and the working atmosphere has darkened […]
Thaxted Festival: Purcell The Fairy Queen, Z 629. Oz Clarke (narrator); Eloise Irving, Hannah Fraser Mackenzie, Laura Moretto (sopranos); William Towers (alto); Matthew Pochin (tenor); Robert Davies (bass); Armonico Consert & Baroque Players / Chrisopher […]
Twenty years after his lovely death, apparently by his own hand, Carlos Kleiber stands out in memory as the most accomplaished conductor the world has ever seen. Every Carlos performance – and there were not […]
