The Hamburg Elbphilharmonie has just released artist details: Against Silence. Against Anti-Semitism Mon, 16 September 2024, 20:00, Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall Solidarity concert featuring Igor Levit (piano), Malakoff Kowalski (piano), Johanna Summer (piano), Alan Gilbert (violin), […]
The mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti was seen by millions singing in the rain a few weeks ago at the opening of the Paris Olympics. Now she is getting personal about her prolonged struggle with cancer. I […]
Our agony aunt has freelanced in the Berlin Phil and knows the situation from the inside. Dear Alma, I am a young musician trying to get a foothold on a career. I am still in […]
Charles Haupt was barely shaving when the San Antonio Symphony signed him as concertmaster back in the day. Lukas Foss swooped in 1966 to bring him to the Buffalo Philharmonic, where he served for 37 […]
She was half-French, half-Italian, spoke six languages and sang in twice as many. The mega-hits of Caterina Valente, who has died in Switzerland at 93, came mostly in the 1950s. She made her breakthrough in […]
PROM 67 Vaughan Williams, Schoenberg, Shostakovich Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Tarmo Peltokoski (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 09.09.2024 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ (1934) Schoenberg Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1935/6) Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in […]
Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, is streaming Die Fledermaus today. Johann Strauss II’s comic operetta in three acts premiered in 1874 and has become a synonym of the operetta genre. In only six years, the operetta […]
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Greg Beardsell and National Youth Choir [Photo: Belinda Lawley] It is all change at the National Youth Choir as three principal conductors reach the end of their five-year contracts and will be finishing in their […]
Anja Mittermüller was named First Prize winner last night the 2024 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition. She’s 21. Just about old enough to accept a drink from the sponsor. The post Austrian mezzo wins bubbly […]
Swiss based Artists Management Company has signed the Berlin Philharmonic’s assistant conductor Christian Blex. Blex, 31, has come up through the Siemens Conductors Scholarship of the Karajan Academy. The post Berlin Phil assistant baton gets […]
