Salzburg today declared 98.2 percent ticket sales.
Bayreuth put up sold-out notices.
Lucerne has yet to announce but it’s clear that the elite festivals are back where they were before Covid.
Which is good for festival finances, but the humility has gone. The rich have inherited the earth all over again.
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From the nation’s leading orchestra of substitutes: Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons Appoint Alexander Velinzon as New First Associate Concertmaster. A BSO Member Since 2000, Velinzon Has Been Associate Concertmaster Since 2015. Velinzon Will […]
From my latest monthly essay in The Critic magazine. a survey of the many sons of conductors who dream of inheriting the berth: … There is half a football team of son-ofs who are presently […]
An extraordinary take on the Purcell ode by Sofia Preobrazhenskaya, recorded in Leningrad in 1959. Beautiful in quite unexpected ways. The post Dido laments in Russian appeared first on Slippedisc.
