The ten finalists were made known last night: Eliza Boom, soprano, New Zealand Le Bu, bass-baritone, China Vladislav Chizhov, baritone, Russia Elmina Hasan, mezzo-soprano, Azerbaijan Liam James Karai, bass-baritone, UK/India Jack Lee, baritone, UK Kathleen […]
The Greek-American conductor and impresario Peter Tiboris, who was died aged 76, was recognised as ‘the most prolific presenter of choral concerts in the history of Carnegie Hall.’ He presented 1,500 events worldwide, including opera, […]
The conductor will miss the first three weeks of the Cleveland Orchestra season, having returned unwell from its European tour. His replacements will be Osmo Vänskä, Elim Chan and associate conductor Daniel Reith. The deceptively […]
The Belgian newspaper De Standaard has some additional details of why the early-music group Anima Eterna this week fired its ‘aggressive’ founder Jos Van Immerseel. The ensemble, it appears, was in transition from Van Immerseel’s […]
Strenuous efforts to produce a gender-balanced outcome at the Leeds Piano Competition have apparently paid off. The five finalists, announced last night, are: Kai-Min Chang (Taiwan) Junyan Chen (China) Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (Canada) Khanh Nhi Luong […]
Il Pomo d’Oro and counter-tenor Jakub Jozef Orliński form a Theseus thread though a trio of discs we will examine in turn: Gluck’s opera Orfeo & Euridice with Orlinski (and Elsa Dreisig and Fatima Said) […]
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Rimsky Korsakov: The Snowmaiden – rehearsals – English Touring Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) Rimsky Korsakov wrote some fifteen operas across his career yet if you discount performances by visiting companies, the number of his operas […]
The BBC has just announced an average 96 percent ticket sale for Royal Albert Hall evening concerts in the Proms season just ended. That’s up from 93 percent last year. One-third of attenders are said […]
Remember this? If you can’t decipher it, the caption says: B&H can supply you with the new model. NO the Euphonium. Not the Girl. What were they thinking? The post When Boosey was all […]
Britten Sinfonia with sitarist Anoushka Shankar and percussionist Manu Delago at Barbican Hall, 2022 (Photo: Mark Allan The Britten Sinfonia’s 2024/25 season launches on 8 October with a trio of concerts (at the Barbican, and […]
