Over the hoplidays this week, BBC Radio 3 is running three new Lebrecht Interviews with leading figures in thee music world. Two are notoriously elusive. This is, I am told, the first programme-length interview Itzhak […]
The Norwegian soprano, presently on maternity break, will sing her first Isolde in a new production of Wagner’s opera Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in January 2026, it was announced this morning. She is […]
The singing contest will take place in Mumbai, India, in September. These are the selected contestants: Nurgalym Amanbay, tenor, Kazakhstan Eliza Boom, soprano, New Zealand Le Bu, bass-baritone, China Vladislav Chizhov, baritone, Russia Monica Conesa, […]