From an article by the singer Ian Bostridge in Prospect magazine: I only met Pierre Boulez (born 1925) once, and the circumstances were not propitious. Back in 2010, I’d been asked to sing in Stravinsky’s […]
Cambridge Summer Music is proud to share news of their ‘Young Composers Workshop 2025’, a transformative opportunity for aspiring composers aged 21 and under to develop their skills and hear their original works performed by […]
Conclave Click here to rent In view of the recent death of Pope Francis I thought you might like to know that Conclave, the recent Oscar-winning movie about the election of a Pope, starring a […]
The BBC Concert Orchestra has become the first ever Associate Orchestra at Alexandra Palace, paying homage to the ongoing collaboration between the orchestra and the iconic venue. The partnership also honours the heritage of BBC broadcasting at the […]
They include Harrison Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy (what’s that in German?), George Benjamin’s Written on Skin and Bluthochzeit by Wolfgang Fortner. Not to mention, among the revivals, Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Passenger, Blühen by Vito Žuraj, […]
The festival opera published next season’s plans this morning. 1 Puccini’s Tosca, directed by Ted Huffman 2 Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo 3 Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos along with revivals of Rossini’s Il turco in Italia, Britten’s Billy […]
Tomorrow, on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, the Munich Philharmonic will play a concert with 50 musicians from the Israel Philharmonic. Lahav Shani will conduct Tzvi Avni’s ‘Prayer’ for […]
From next season, concert tickets will cost from 11 to 330 Euros. Intendant Andrea Zietzschmann (left) blames the five percent increase on ten percent subsidy cuts imposed by former culture senator Joe Chialo. She does […]
A House of Representatives committee has approved a $257 million grant proposal to the Kennedy Center, six times its usual grant, the BY Times has reported. The Republican-dominated committee said a ‘component of the proposal […]
The Georgian-Russian music conductor Vakhtang Machavariani, head of the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra in Tbilisi since 1996, has died at the age of 74. In 1990 he created the Soviet Festival Orchestra while also conducting […]