Remember when they didn’t start selling tickets until May? And everything sold out within hours. The Bayreuth Festival has just put its 150th anniversary festival on show, and partly on sale. Christian Thielemann will open […]
The death has been announced of Mariinsky soloist Sergei Aleksashkin, aged 72. He sang abroad at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, the Washington Opera, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Rome Opera, Hamburg, Opéra National […]
From Inside Higher Ed: The University of Chicago’s Arts and Humanities Division is pausing new PhD student admissions for the 2026–27 academic year across all departments except philosophy and one music department program. The departments […]
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna and its symphony foundation have announced the death of Francesco Ernani, their Sovrintendente from 2011 t0 2015. He was 87. Before Bologna, Ernani was successively sovrintendente of the Arena di […]
The Proms have had a lucky year, with only one major cancellation. Here’s a bigger one, just in: Sir Simon Rattle must undergo routine surgery in the next few days so, regretfully, he has had […]
The polemicist Stephen Pollard argues in the Spectator that Covent Garden was right to hire her. … I review opera, and so I had a decision to take: should I remain true to my principles […]
The former music director of Trinity Church Wall Street has been charged in Indianapolis with 10 counts of Possession of Child Sex Abuse Material (Level 5 Felony) and Possession of Cocaine (Level 4). WIBC reports: […]
The Bayreuth Festival has closed on 98.1 percent season capacity, exceeding expectations after an initial slow tocket sale. Some 56,000 people attended the 29 performances. The post Bayreuth hits 98 percent appeared first […]
The Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury will sing a role debut as Hélène in Verdi’s Sicilian Vespers at Covent Garden next month, her first attemot at the role. She replaces Marina Rebeka who is unwell. Speranza […]
The Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski is heading to Lviv ito open the National Philharmonic season on 13 September with a piano concerto by Borys Lyatoshynsky. He is donating his fee to the orchestra. The conductor […]
