The Bolshoi press service has announced the death of baritone Vladislav Verestnikov, one of its long-serving stalwarts.
Originally from Kharkiv, he was married to fellow-Ukrainian soprano Lyudmila Sergienko.
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Oliver Mears, director of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, has emailed an explanation to staff as to why he attemped to remove a Palestine flag from one of the extras during curtain-calls for Il […]
The Estonian modernist-turned-minimalist was born on September 11, 1935. His influence on music today is more widespread than any living composer. The post Arvo Pärt, 90 today appeared first on Slippedisc.
The death has been communicated of Paul Plishka, who made his Met debut in La Gioconda in 1967 and retired after La Boheme in January 2017. Paul, who was 83, was the grandson of Ukrainian […]
