In the orchetra’s hot seat since 2001, the violinist Jonathan Carney will retire as concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony in 2027, it was announced today. Carney, 62, had been suspended in the past over claims […]
Message received: On 1 January 2025, Solvej Donadel took over as editor-in-chief at Breitkopf & Härtel. Since 2018, she has been the editor for chamber music at Breitkopf & Härtel. Born in Stuttgart, she has […]
The Buffalo Symphony music director will join the Omaha Symphony as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor for the 2025/26 season. She will also assist with developing vibrant programming, recommend guest conductors and guest artists, […]
Pretty well, it seems. Lise Davidsen jumped in with ease as Ariadne. Kurier praised the ‘Bewitchingly beautiful singing’. Davidsen, wrote Der Standard, ‘effortlessly sings her way through the role of the ancient mourner who awaits […]
Home life in Anif. Image posted on Facebook in 2019 by the Herbert von Karajan official page. And another from Twitter/X: same credit. ©Siegfried Lauterwasser, Karajan-Archive. The post Musicians who look like […]
Press release: The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and Universal Edition are jointly launching the International Competition for Young Composers. The composition competition […]
A letter to the New York Times: I’m a co-owner of Luaka Bop, a New York-based record label, and last June was accompanying the Staples Jr. Singers, a gospel group from Aberdeen, Miss., on a […]
The Salzburg Schokolade company has issued its final batch of Mirabell Mozartkugeln. The American owner, Mondelez, has decided to move production abroad. But no location or date has been fixed for resumption. The Salzburg factory […]
Cynthia Erivo Click here to watch Cynthia Chinasaokwu Onyedinmanasu Amarachukwu Owezuke Echimino Erivo celebrates her 38th birthday this week. I’m being pernickety about her proper name as I was rightly taken to task recently for […]
The Trinidadian singer Jeanine de Bique has been receiving some critical heat in Paris over her French diction as Telaire in Rameau’s Telaire Castor et Pollux at the Opéra. She’s not going to take that. […]
