The French cellist Ophélie Gaillard, whose 1737 Goffriller was taken by housebreakers while her family were asleep at home, has been reunited with the instrument, and with two precious bows that were also taken. Three […]
Gianfranco Mariotti, who founded the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro in 1980, died yesterday at the age of 91. He was Sovrintendente of the festival for 38 seasons, stepping down in 2017. He put Pesaro […]
Yesterday was the deadline for applying for voluntary redundancies at Welsh National Opera. From today, cost-cutting officials will be issuing redundancy notices with the aim of reducing a once-proud chorus to a payroll of twenty. […]
NCEM Young Composers Award 2024 winners Ryan Collins and Charlotte Robertson with Ex Corde Each year Young Composers Award is presented by the National Centre for Early Music in association with BBC Radio 3 and […]
This was an auspicious start to the relationship between the Bournemouth Symphony and its recently appointed Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth. And in the first of five programmes this season at Poole with him, the BSO […]
A frequent visitor to the Philharmonic, having appeared with the orchestra over 150 times since his debut in 1978, Yefim Bronfman was a commanding presence on the as he delivered aglowing performance of Beethoven’s C-minor […]
A frequent visitor to the Philharmonic, having appeared with the orchestra over 150 times since his debut in 1978, Yefim Bronfman was a commanding presence on the as he delivered aglowing performance of Beethoven’s C-minor […]
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel – Zahid Siddiqui (Witch) – Royal Academy Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel; Clover Kayne, Erin O’Rourke, Alex Bower-Brown, Zixin Tang, Zahid Siddiqui, director: Jack Furness, conductor: Johann Stuckenbruck, […]
The Berkeley Symphony has announced that Joseph Young will leave next summer after six years as music director. Young, 42, is also artistic director at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Berkeley was his first orchestra. […]
Morley College, an adult education institute that once gave employment to German-Jewish refugees, has stepped in to ban a concert of pro-Palestine new music with such titles as ‘Salute to the Resistance’ and ‘Blood United […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Only love can bear the burden of truth: Ben Parry & Garth Bardsley on their new opera that premieres at Snape this Saturday")
