The music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra has cancelled his all-Beethoven Easter concerts. Jumping in are Rafael Payare (pic) and Franz Welser-Möst. The post Riccardo Chailly’s luck is out in Lucerne appeared first […]
The Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda has extended his stay as music director in Washington DC to the year 2031. Press release: The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is proud to announce that Music Director Gianandrea Noseda, […]
The Hungarian Andras Schiff has announced he will not play in then US during Donald Trump’s presidency. Schiff, 71, told the NY Times: ‘He has brought an ugliness into this world which hadn’t been there… […]
Opera for Everyone The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 will be ten days of Operas, Concerts, and Education Workshops throughout the most beautiful area of Britain. Following our Opera Festivals in 2021 and 2023, both critically-acclaimed by international […]
The festival includes concerts by the Hallé, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, English National Opera, Manchester Collective, Riot Ensemble and Royal Northern College of Music Festival opens with a Steve Reich special featuring Radiohead guitarist Jonny […]
We understand that Jörg Golombek, a leading tenor in the Bayreuth Festival chorus, has sent an open letter to Katharina Wagner, accusing her of wrecking the institution. The key paragraph in a very long screed […]
The University of California at Berkeley has an excellent classical music venue, the Hertz Hall. It seats 678. But it is often three-quarters empty. So they have built the Wu Hall, with just 100 seats. […]
Stephen Sondheim There has been much clamour from readers for full-length Sondheim musicals and this week Into the Woods with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine who also directed, has […]
The Bayreuth boss is not having much luck when she directs away from home. Here’s Javier Pérez Senz for Scherzo on her Lohengrin. The premiere of the production of Lohengrin, directed by Katharina Wagner, the […]
They may have no chief conductor in sight, and no clear strategic goals, but for want of anything better to do the payroll-heavy LA Phil just keeps on promoting its own. We hear that Cynthia […]
