Nott: the next conductor
The british conductor Jonathan Nott will end his leadership next season of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. No successor has been named. But the season’s guest conductors are predominantly women – Eun Sun Kim […]
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Ivo Pogorelich: Study music to shut out the lies
From an interview with BR-Klassik: ‘I really wish more people would study music. Because in today’s world, we live with so much bad information; it’s really like an avalanche. And a person sitting at the […]
Alexander Pereira: The trial resumes
Backstage Classical reports that the trial of the former Maggio Musicale director is reaching its climax in Florence. Pereira is accused of misappropriating Maggio funds for unauthorised travel and relocation expenses and using the company’s […]
Munich: The other shoe drops
A couple of days after Asmik Grigorian pulled out of Munich’s Flying Dutchman at the end of this month, the Dutchman himself has cancelled. Gerald Finley is out. Nicholas Brownlee jumps in. Camilla Nylund replaces […]
Just in: Berlin Phil takes principal flute from Chicago
We hear that Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has won the principal flute audition at the Berllin Philharmonic. An announcement is forthcoming later today. Stefán will succeed Sebastian Jacot, who failed to […]
Celebrating 80 years: Cheltenham Music Festival with new music from Deborah Pritchard & Anna Semple, alongside music from the first festival
Cheltenham Music Festival 2023 Established in 1945 in the months following the Second World War, the Cheltenham Music Festival is celebrating 80 years this year. The festival was part of a post-war arts festival movement that also […]
Ravel Fragments: Bertrand Chamayou’s anniversary tribute
As we saw from Sunday’s post (Emmanuel Despax plays Ravel), it’s Ravel’s anniversary; and indeed Bertrand Chamayou played, on the same night, complete Ravel solo piano music in Paris. Nearly a decade ago, Chamayou corded […]
Ruth Leon recommends… Death and the King’s Horseman – Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka Click here to subscribe The greater the honour, the deeper the shame. In British-occupied Nigeria, the king is dead, and it is the duty of his horseman, Elesin, to accompany him into […]
Gergiev commits piracy at the Bolshoi
Message from the emigre choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: Tomorrow the BOLSHOI will illegally revive my ballet “BRIGHT STREAM” in Moscow. Six performances without a license and without the name of the choreographer. Nobody expects legality from […]
Here’s $50 million. Now dance
The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has received a $50 million gift from Lynne and Richard Pasculano, to be spent on contemporary dance. It’s the Lincoln Center’s biggest ever gift. But it’s by no […]
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