I don’t remember a silence quite like last night’s packed Wigmore Hall. Mischa Maisky was back after prolonged illness with his career- long recital partner Martha Argerich and a youngish violinist, Yossif Ivanov. Mischa, looking […]
In Strauss’ ‘scandal opera’, Salome, based on the play by enfant terrible Oscar Wilde, all the protagonists selfishly pursue fulfilment. Director Ersan Mondtag, who previously created flamboyant productions at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen such as Schreker’s […]
We hear that Spanish violinst Raquel Areal Martinez has pased her audition and been offered a place in the Berlin Philharmonic. Raquel, 25, from Galicia, is presently a scholar in the orchestra’s Karajan Academy. She […]
Rolling out his first season at the head of the Cinicinnati Symphony POrchestra, Cristian Măcelaru has given debuts to three guest conductors – Kristiina Poska, Oksana Lyniv and Tabita Berglund. He has also programmed Anna […]
Malin Broman, concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, has been named music director of the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, starting this summer. Broman, who turns 50 this year, is also Artistic Director of the Ostrobothnian […]
The conductor, 82, today confirms a long-suspected diagnosis in a statement from his home in Berlin: I know that many people have been concerned about my health. I have been very touched by the support […]
Northern Ballet, which has scrapped its orchestra, is recruiting London players for a Midlands tour – at half of last year’s rates. The fee on offer is £480, down from £800 a year ago. Among […]
The Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano has forbidden soprano Christina Daletska to wear Ukrainian national colours on its stage. The dress, she was told, violates Swiss neutrality. Report here. The post Swiss orchestra neuters […]
Musicians are mourning the death of Matias de Oliveira Pinto, a cellist and professor, killed in a car crash near Münster on Monday night. The Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra writes: The Osesp Foundation deeply mourns […]
The composer Joseph Pibbs is working with historian and podcaster Dominic Sandbrook on an opera documenting the decline and fall of the reformist British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Mezzo-soprano Lucy Schauffer will play Mrs T. […]
