Ruth Leon recommends… Woods – W. H. Auden: An Optical Poem
W. H. Auden Click here to watch “The trees encountered on a country stroll / Reveal a lot about a country’s soul.” On February 23, 1956, W.H. Auden delivered a poetry reading at The […]
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Kennedy Center symphony audience boos JD Vance and wife
Several audeience members have told us that US vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha were booed as they took seats last night at a National Symphony Orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center. One person […]
Salome, the Dada opera
The world premiere of Salome by Gerald Barry will take place tomorrow in Magdeburg, Germany. Here’s some blurb: Salome – wait! That’s an opera by Richard Strauss! Yes, and one by Antoine Mariotte, plus incidental […]
Northern Aldborough Festival Tickets Go on Sale
Featuring Jacqui Dankworth, Dame Sarah Connolly, Dame Imogen Cooper, Fantasia Orchestra and Matthew Parris. Tickets for one of Yorkshire’s leading classical music festivals, the Northern Aldborough Festival, go on sale this March. Sopranos, operatic stars, […]
A Canadian composer is deported from the US
Message from Andrew Balfour, a Cree composer from Winnipeg: Yesterday is a day I’d rather forget. Even with what I thought was proper paperwork, I was denied entry in US. So, they put you in […]
Edinburgh International Festival Breaks Boundariesin a Year Exploring ‘The Truth We Seek’
1–24 AUGUST 2025eif.co.uk / @edintfest| Edinburgh International Festival’s 2024 programme offers opportunities to experience world-class artists in thought-provoking and unconventional ways – including an eight-hour choral extravaganza, a distinctive outdoor promedande dance piece and a circus […]
Next up at the Kennedy Center: The Apple opera
press release: Washington National Opera (WNO) presents the highly-anticipated The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, created by Kennedy Center’s first Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. The Grammy Award®-winning opera, which follows the life of […]
Three new recruits in the Boston Symphony
The orchestra, with music director Andris Nelsons, has added Samuel Andonian and Arianna Brusubardis Grace to its violin section. Both are local youngesters. Caleb Quillen (pictured) of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra succeeds Ed Barker as […]
Hollywood star Bill Murray to take Birmingham on an ‘unexpected journey’ with gig at Symphony Hall for New Worlds tour
The Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters star brings a performance described by the Chicago Tribune as “a show no-one else could have done” to Birmingham for one night only. Making a very welcome visit to Birmingham […]
Waterperry Opera Festival announces search for a new CEO
Co-founder and outgoing CEO, Guy Verrall-Withers, to leave after 2025 festival WATERPERRY, OXFORDSHIRE – 12 March 2025 – Waterperry Opera Festival today announces that the board of trustees has initiated the search for a new […]
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