The English violinist ascribes three months of temporary deafness to the third Covid jab. He also suffered extreme fatigue, he tells Dalya Alberge in the Observer: “I turned into a zombie … I’d be nodding […]
Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]
Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]
The Vienna State Opera is about to open a sideline space for schoolchildren and young people. It is called NEST. In overall charge is VSO intendant Bogdan Roscic. What is described as NEST’s’project development’ is […]
Southwwark Cathedral is advertising for a director of music, in place of Ian Keatley, who died tragically while on holiday this summer. The pay is £55k, which doesn’t go far in London these days. And […]
The Los Angeles Master Chorale has announced the death of co-founder Marshall Rutter. Artistic director Grant Gershon said: ‘Marshall Rutter was the quiet force behind a remarkable blossoming of choral music in America. As one […]
The US pianist has gone back to her first agent, Tania Dorn, now operating a successful boutique. The drift from big-barn agency to small continues. It seems Dinnerstein has also dropped her exclusivity with ailing […]
From our special correspondent in Tel Aviv, Dan Yakir: The Finish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski conducted six subscription concerts during his Israel Philharmonic debut. After a dazzling performance of Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the […]
Audra Macdonald One of the shows I most wanted to see in New York was the new production of Gypsy starring the wonderful Audra Macdonald. Sadly, the tickets prices are so outrageous – a good […]
Australian musicians are mourning the death of the Melbourne pianist, harpsichordist and teacher Dean Sky-Lucas. He was apparently in hospital, recovering from surgery, when an advanced cancer was discovered. The Melbourne conductor Benjamin Northey writes: […]
