The Bayreuth Festival has closed on 98.1 percent season capacity, exceeding expectations after an initial slow tocket sale. Some 56,000 people attended the 29 performances.
Scherzo reports that the Spanish-resident Venezuelan conductor will conduct a charity concert in Valencia on behalf of victims of the October DANA floods, which claimed more than 200 lives in the region. Dudamel has been […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Into every musical life, a little Schmidt must fall. I cannot count the conductors who have tried to persuade me that the Viennese cellist Franz Schmidt belongs among […]
Message received: On April 20, 2025, acclaimed Black, Queer conductor Cailin Marcel Manson will take the podium at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage to lead the New England Symphonic Ensemble in the Carnegie Hall premiere […]