Dvořák wrote The Devil and Kate just before Rusalka at the height of his powers as an orchestral composer and at a period of keen interest in fairytale and mythological themes. There is much purely instrumental music partly justified […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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