December 23, 2024
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French jazz legend dies, 97

French jazz legend dies, 97

Versailles yesterday witnessed the death of Martial Solal, an epic figure in French jazz and film. A Jewish pianist from Algiers, he mingled in 1950s Paris with Django Reinhardt and Sydney Bechet, forming his own […]

Banned Russian bass is given a job

Banned Russian bass is given a job

The Bolshoi and Marinsky star Ildar Abdrazakov, banned in the West for his support of Putin’s wars, has been appointed artistic director of the Sebastopol State Opera and Ballet Theatre, currently under construction. Sebastopol, a […]

Death of Japanese Salzburg winner

Death of Japanese Salzburg winner

The composer  Michio Mamiya, winner of a grand prix at the 1974 Salzburg Festival with his opera Narukami, has died at the age of 95. He was most widely known for composing anime cartoon films. […]

New Korean opera tonight

New Korean opera tonight

264, That One Star is a new Korean opera created and produced by the Daegu Opera House. The voice in poetry of the Korean independence movement during the Japanese colonial period, his real name was […]

Sudden death of lighting designer, 60

Sudden death of lighting designer, 60

German opera houses are sharing their shock at the unexpected death in Berlin of the highly regarded Rainer Casper. A career-long partner of the director Frank Castorf, he started out at the Volksbühne in Berlin […]