In March 1770, the 14-year-old Mozart presented three magnificent arias at a soirée of Count Firmian’s in Milan: this led to his first commission, for an opera seria for one of Italy’s three principal theatres. The resulting […]
Message received: Seventeen years after its last appearance in 2008, the Filarmonica della Scala returns to Asia from 17 to 28 September for a tour under the leadership of Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor Emeritus of the […]
AskonasHolt have signed the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Molinari, who has a qualification in surgery and medicine from the University of Padua. Originally from Riva del Garda, she started out playing flute before taking her Hippocratic […]