Announcement from the Black Orchestral Network: We congratulate our friend Dana Kelley who recently won the position of Associate Principal violist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC. Learn more about Dana: Violist Dana […]
Beckett Briefs Click here for tickets Don’t miss this. For this week only, until March 30th, the Irish Rep is streaming their critically acclaimed production of Beckett Briefs. When this show premiered live at the […]
Message from the maestro after Maria Valverde’s debut as a director at the Malaga Film Festival: Some beautiful memories from the premiere of El Canto de las Manos at the Málaga Film Festival, a film […]
Britten: War Requiem – Stéphane Denève, Ian Bostridge, Roderick Williams, New World Symphony – Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Britten: War Requiem; Christine Goerke, Ian Bostridge, Roderick Williams, New World Symphony, Stéphane Denève, Florida Singing Sons, […]
The Grawemeyer-winning composer Olga Neuwirth is working on a new opera with Nobel Prize literature winner Elfriede Jelinek. Titled ‘Monster’s Paradise’ it features an incompetent, brutal king, easily recognised in today’s political pantheon. The style […]
Music in the Museum – Agustin Pennino – London Transport Museum Music in the Museum: Handel, Mendelssohn, Michael Head, Rossini; Agustin Pennino; London Transport MuseumReviewed 21 March 2025 A young Uruguayan counter-tenor braves the hubbub caused […]
Tavish Forsyth, a program director at the Kennedy Center’s Opera Institute, has been fired after posting a naked video of himself on Youtube and X, deriding the Center’s new president. ‘America had quit me and […]
We have been notified of the death of Alan Cuckston, a widely recorded English harpsichordist and pianist. Born in Leeds, he toured with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and Pro Cantione Antiqua and recorded much […]
The conductor and arranger Robin White has died after a richly fulfilling career, mainly in light-music and outdoor concerts. A student of Vernon Handley, he gave concerts at National Trust properties across the south of […]
Ultra-orthodox housing minister Yitzchak Goldknopf is at the centre of a furore after he was filmed dancing at his nephew’s wedding to a song whose refrain is ‘we’ll die rather than join the army’. His […]
