The insult was so potent that the first performance of Donizetti’s historical tragedy, Maria Stuarda, was cancelled at the last minute in Naples through royal intervention. A toned-down revision went awry at La Scala the […]
The orchestra has just let is be known that Joel Link of the Dover Quartet is to be its new concertmaster, starting in July. The seat was vacated in March last year by David Radzynski, […]
Italian media have reported the death today in Mariano Comense of the great Peruvian tenor Luigi Alva. Arriving in Milan in 1953 after serving in the Preuvian navy, Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo trained at […]
When Yunchan Lim won the Van Cliburn Competition in 2022, the world knew nothing about him except that he was South Korean. He only had one teacher back home. His name was Minsoo Sohn and […]
When The Magic Flute opens tonight in Hong Kong it will be the first major opera co-production between China and Australia. The project likes State Opera South Australia with Opera Hong Kong, the Beijing Music […]
Management of the Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania has responded to our previous report: At the end of the negotiation session of the Collective Labour Agreement yesterday, May 14, 2025, members of the Sibiu Philharmonic Instrumentalists’ […]
The annual shlock-fest of voyeuristic folly has a fervid fan. The conductor Paavo Järvi, head of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, has his eyeballs ready and his twitter-fingers itching. He can’t wait for the vote from […]
Gypsy Click here to watch NPR is one of the totally terrific things about the United States. It is National Public Radio, a coalition of local radio stations in towns and cities all over the […]
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra has let it be known that Alexander Shelley will step down as music director a year from now, after 11 years in the podium. NAC Orchestra Managing Director Nelson McDougall […]
Independent Rajar monitoring figures, out today, show that the classical music station achieved 2.15m listeners in the past three months, the highest Q1 reach for at least ten years. The relexation stream, BBC Unwind, added […]
