Addio to Rossini Festival founder
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 […]
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It’s Black Thursday in Wales as opera chorus shrinks to 20
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. […]
National Centre for Early Music launches the 2025 Young Composers Award in association with BBC Radio 3, working with The Brook Street Band
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 […]
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at The Lighthouse – Mark Wigglesworth conducts Wagner & Walton, and Nicholas McCarthy plays Ravel
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 […]
New York Philharmonic – Paavo Järvi conducts Nielsen Five, with Yefim Bronfman playing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto
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 […]
New York Philharmonic – Paavo Järvi conducts Nielsen Five, with Yefim Bronfman playing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto
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 […]
If you go down to the woods: a gender-fluid witch & an oppressive religious sect in this gripping performance of Jack Furness’ intriguing take on Hänsel und Gretel from Royal Academy Opera
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, […]
Berkeley loses music director
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. […]
London college cancels ‘Palestine resistance’ concert
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 […]
A soaring Spanish voice is stilled at 90
The Liceu in Barcelona has tweeted news of the death of soprano Enriqueta Tarrés, one of the frontline singers of her time. After making her debut at the Liceu aged 23, she joined the Basel […]
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