First it was the dancers. Now the stage crews and front-of-house staff have joined in. Thursday’s Rigoletto was cancelled last-minute at the Bastille, along with the ballet Jeux at the Garnier. The unions warn of […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: German composers don’t know how to have fun. Think no further than Mozart’s Musical Joke, or Beethoven’s fat-shaming of the violinist Schuppanzigh. Not funny at all. Not to […]
Jon Favreau’s comedy Elf, the story of Buddy, a human accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised among Santa’s elves, who travels to New York City at age 30, in full […]
Verdi: Rigoletto – Bernardo Medeiros (Rigoletto)Palm Beach Opera (Photo: Coastal Click Photography) Opera Up-Close: Unveiling the dramatic process with Paul Curran; Paul Curran, Palm Beach Opera; The Cornelia T. Bailey Opera Center; Palm Beach, Florida14 […]
This is a beautifully-recorded mix of traditional and contemporary works on teh much-respected Avie label that celebrates the choir’s musical heritage, It begins with a carol by William Walton, Make we joy now in this […]
The e-zine Liner Notes have published an absorbing article on the long-lived Siegmund Forst (1904-2006) who, escaping to New York from Nazi-run Vienna, became a noted cover designer for the Uranus label. The article can […]
The management of the most historic opera house in the southern hemisphere is now in the following hands: Gerardo Grieco, General Manager (Uruguay) Andrés Rodríguez, Opera Director (Chile) Julio Bocca, Ballet Director (Argentinian living in […]
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With the proliferation of new Classical releases this year, I’ve found myself spending much more time listening than reviewing, eager to move on to the next batch of CDs that arrives in the mail. So […]
Here’s a happy holiday story. The young Austrian conductor Felix Hornbacher, assistant to Simone Young, received an emergency call from Japan. The Kawaminami Mozart Music Festival, an event founded by his uncle Balduin Sulzer, had […]
.webp?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Up Close and Musical: Shiry Rashkovsky's concert series to be first classical offering at The Amadeus, Maida Vale")
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "A meaty, not to say tough programme: Sakari Oramo, Guy Johnston & BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Cello Symphony, Turnage premiere & Sibelius at the BBC Proms")
