The 2025 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra summer tour with Daniel Barenboim and Lang Lang kicked off yesterday with a sold-out performance at the Musikfest Bremen.
The tour continues today with the annual performance at the Waldbühne in Berlin, featuring Wagner, Mendelssohn & Beethoven.
The former London Symphony Orchestra chorus chap who rose to fame on the BBC teaching army wives to sing has inked a Friday-night deal with Classic FM: Gareth says: ‘I’m delighted to be joining Classic […]
The first Parisian audiences at the Opéra Comique in 1875 were shocked to see Bizet’s incarnation of such an independent heroine. Today, Carmen is the French opera that is most performed around the globe. This a […]
The composer Gennadi Banshchikov has died in St Petersburg, aged 82. He leaves 4 symphonies, 5 cello concertos and a cahmber opera, chamber opera The Great Quarrel between Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich. The post […]