First it was the dancers. Now the stage crews and front-of-house staff have joined in. Thursday’s Rigoletto was cancelled last-minute at the Bastille, along with the ballet Jeux at the Garnier. The unions warn of […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: German composers don’t know how to have fun. Think no further than Mozart’s Musical Joke, or Beethoven’s fat-shaming of the violinist Schuppanzigh. Not funny at all. Not to […]
The e-zine Liner Notes have published an absorbing article on the long-lived Siegmund Forst (1904-2006) who, escaping to New York from Nazi-run Vienna, became a noted cover designer for the Uranus label. The article can […]
The management of the most historic opera house in the southern hemisphere is now in the following hands: Gerardo Grieco, General Manager (Uruguay) Andrés Rodríguez, Opera Director (Chile) Julio Bocca, Ballet Director (Argentinian living in […]
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Here’s a happy holiday story. The young Austrian conductor Felix Hornbacher, assistant to Simone Young, received an emergency call from Japan. The Kawaminami Mozart Music Festival, an event founded by his uncle Balduin Sulzer, had […]
The violist Clifton Harrison has let it be known he is leaving the Kreutzer Quartet in a couple of weeks. He has been with the much-recorded group for just under ten years. The post UK […]
The Finnish music world is in mourning for an outstanding violinist, Eriikka Maalismaa, who succumbed yesterday in hospital to a fast-progressing condition. Eriikka, concertmaster of the Helsinki Philharmonic fro 2006 to 2016, gave the world […]
The city of Würzburg has been shaken by the abrupt departure of Markus Trabusch, in tendant of the Mainfranken Theatre for the past nine years. A statement by the city said Traubusch had ‘recently been […]
Sigrid Kehl started out as a mezzo at Leipzig Opera and upscaled to soprano, singing in all major Wagner productions for more than 35 years, from 1957 until the Wall came down. Abroad, she sang […]
