The Monteverdi Choir and soloists will open the Edinburgh Festival with John Tavener’s eight-hour choral epic, The Veil of The Temple. The choir will be conducted by its new director, the British-Swiss baritone Jonathan Sells […]
The authorities in Kazan have reported the death of Sofia Gubaidulina, a leader of her generation, at the age of 93. Friends tell us she died early this morning A contemplative, spiritual modernist, she was […]
The british conductor Jonathan Nott will end his leadership next season of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. No successor has been named. But the season’s guest conductors are predominantly women – Eun Sun Kim […]
From an interview with BR-Klassik: ‘I really wish more people would study music. Because in today’s world, we live with so much bad information; it’s really like an avalanche. And a person sitting at the […]
Backstage Classical reports that the trial of the former Maggio Musicale director is reaching its climax in Florence. Pereira is accused of misappropriating Maggio funds for unauthorised travel and relocation expenses and using the company’s […]
A couple of days after Asmik Grigorian pulled out of Munich’s Flying Dutchman at the end of this month, the Dutchman himself has cancelled. Gerald Finley is out. Nicholas Brownlee jumps in. Camilla Nylund replaces […]
We hear that Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has won the principal flute audition at the Berllin Philharmonic. An announcement is forthcoming later today. Stefán will succeed Sebastian Jacot, who failed to […]
Wole Soyinka Click here to subscribe The greater the honour, the deeper the shame. In British-occupied Nigeria, the king is dead, and it is the duty of his horseman, Elesin, to accompany him into […]
Message from the emigre choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: Tomorrow the BOLSHOI will illegally revive my ballet “BRIGHT STREAM” in Moscow. Six performances without a license and without the name of the choreographer. Nobody expects legality from […]
The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has received a $50 million gift from Lynne and Richard Pasculano, to be spent on contemporary dance. It’s the Lincoln Center’s biggest ever gift. But it’s by no […]
