Created by David Bintley for the National Ballet of Japan in 2008, this production has been a favourite with Japanese audiences (this is the fourth revival), while also winning a place in the repertoire of […]
Music? You can’t destroy that … (Anita Lasker-Wallfisch) Christian Berger’s film, Musik unterm Hakenkreutz, a fascinating and disturbing documentary in equal parts, is dominated by the figure of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1923), who endured imprisonment […]
It’s curtains for the Vle of Glamorgan Festival which has been presenting new works each years since 1969. Composer Huw Watkins says on its website: ‘This wonderful festival has championed an enormous range of composers […]
The Philharmonic’s first program of the 24-25 season opened with a sparkling account of Mozart’s genial Concerto No.14 with Emanuel Ax. Written in 1784, K449 is the first of his mature piano concertos and the […]
The Royal Opera informs us that Eva-Maria Westbroek has withdrawn from all performances of Festen ‘due to personal reasons’. The new opera by Mark Anthony Turnage, based on the Danish cult film, does not premiere […]
Message from José Miguel Pérez-Sierra: I am happy to be able to share with you my appointment as Musical and Artistic Director of the Royal Opera Festival in Krakow. In addition to the close collaboration […]
Today, Northern Ballet is performing Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon without its orchestra. Two of the nation’s core arts institutions have been stripped bare by Arts Council England. This is […]
The Czech Philharmonic has lost its music director for the opening of the season while he undergoes back surgery. The first three concerts will be conducted by Charles Dutoit. Bychkov, 71, will be incapacitated for […]
Five staffers have resigned and one has been fired for wearing pro-Palestine propaganda at work. The arts centre, founded in 1874 as a Jewish facility, hosts many classical music performances. Story here. The post Gaza […]
US violinist Mayumi Kanagawa (centre among the finalists) has won this year’s George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest with a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’s 3rd concerto. Second was South Korea’s Hyeonjeong Lee, aged 13. Japan’s […]
