The Israeli double bassist Avishai Cohen, dropped earlier this week by a Warsaw festival for performing in Moscow, has now been cancelled on July 13-14 at the Walden Festival in Brussels.
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It’s been a while: well, over 40 years, since I heard Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe, in an amdram production just outside of Manchester in which I was playing French horn. Has absence made the […]
The Almeida director Rupert Goold has been named artistic director of the iconic Old Vic theatre, succeeding Matthew Warchus. Goold, 52, has staged several musicals, but no opera. The post Old Vic names new boss […]
The Cleveland Orchestra has received a $5 million gift from the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation in support of the Kelvin Smith Family Chair held by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. Welser-Möst will step down when […]
%20Craig%20Fuller.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Sonic & dramatic splendour: Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo & a strong cast demonstrate the richness to be found in Handel's Saul to open the London Handel Festival")
