We’re hearing from Warsaw that the Polish tenor Piotr Beczala changed his recital programme at the last minute to eliminate a group of Russian songs.
He said he was ‘furious’ at the deal the Russians and Americans are imposing on Ukraine.
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Ireland’s Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan announced today that the country’s Arts Council spent €6.7 million (£5.7m) on an IT system that it soon abandoned. Report here. Why, they’re no better than the […]
.jpg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Echoes of war: Salomon Orchestra, Cathal Garvey & Charlie Lovell-Jones in Walton, Britten & Vaughan Williams")
This year is the 80th anniversary of the ending of World War Two, and organisations are finding a wide variety of ways to create events that reflect this. For their concert at Smith Square Hall […]
Mozart’s Idomeneo is regarded as his first mature opera, written for Munich in 1781. The subject may not have been Mozart’s choice but it represents the composers continuing engagement with Italian opera seria, a style that […]
