Peter Wiegold and notes inégales in 2016 (Photo: Frederique Bellec) Club Inégales is back! Peter Wiegold’s genre-defying evening is returning to its Euston home for four evenings from 14 November. The events take place thanks […]
The incoming music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra is not receiving a unanimous welcome. The Human Rights Foundation has been running poster trucks through Manhattan, highlighting Dudamel’s connections with the military regime in […]
Dame Sarah Connolly & Mark Padmore in discussion at the Bailey Concert Singers Symposium Coaching and masterclasses for singers tends to be focused, understandably, on the wider solo repertoire but the Bailey Concert Singers’ Symposium […]
The Australian Nicholas Carter, who is presently chief conductor at Oper Bern in Switzerland, has been named Generalmusikdirektor of Staatsoper Stuttgart, one of the leading German houses. He will succeed Cornelius Meister in 2006. Stuttgart […]
The orchestra is bidding farewell to Alessandro Cappone, who is retiring from the first violin section after 44 years. His father, Giusto Cappone, was principal viola under Herbert von Karajan from 1958 to 1984. Alessandro […]
The Met has posted video of a visibly nervous Lise Davidsen taking her first jump into the Tosca pit: View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Metropolitan Opera (@metopera) […]
Zurich Opera hired the Russian exile Kirill Serebrennikov to mark what would have been Alfred Schnittke’s 90th borthday this month. His staging of ‘The Idiot’ replaces recent anti-Putin connotations with maximum gay exposure. From Lotte […]
Message from Cecilia Bartoli: During the 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, you will hear a selection of music spanning five centuries, featuring works that were either written in Venice, created for Venice or inspired by the […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I am a public school orchestra director. I am pretty young, I graduated a couple of years ago, and then got a job (really nice one) in the […]
Sam Rudd-Jones: Three Sonatas, Variations, Jeux d’eau, Hardy in Love; Darragh Morgan, Kate Romano, Huw Watkins, Sam Rudd-Jones, Ed Lyon; Prima FacieReviewed 4 November 2024 A remarkable debut, a disc of chamber music by 25-year-old […]
