The Audite International Conducting Masterclass takes place this week in Budapest with the Solti Chamber Orchestras. The tutors are Jonathan Brett (UK) and Maciej Zoltowski (Poland/US). Of the 15 candidates selected, eight are young women. […]
Remember the concertmaster in Schleswig-Holstein who fed rat poison to his mother and two colleagues? He was jailed for six and a half years last October. Now, the federal superior court has ordered a retrial. […]
A couple of years before Covid, the NY Times stopped reviewing all the classical music that’s fit to print. After a century or so of covering the musical waterfront, the paper scrapped smaller venues and […]
The culture minister has renewed Volksoper chief Lotte de Beer by five years to 2032. The Dutchwoman, 42, has managed a smooth transition of music directors, from Omer Meir Wellber to Ben Glassberg, and has […]
Some responses to our Twitter trawl for pescatarian operas: Salom(on)e Tur&bot Porgy and Bass The Frying Dutchman Twilight of the Cods Madama Batterfry Figaroe Attilapia The Eelixir of Love The Exterminating Angelfish Lucia di Lampreymoor […]
Titian’s Rest on the Flight Into Egypt Click here to watch Here’s another of those delicious short art history videos that I love so much. Dr James Fox, art historian and broadcaster and Letitzia Treves, who […]
The diva is 52 years old and on her own. She can choose between embracing Putin onc e more or denouncing him sufficiently to appease western employers who are anyway eager to harness her undiminished […]
Local media report that the school, which offers tuition to deprive communities, is facing closure over a deficit of $80,000. That’s all it takes. Read here. The post Brooklyn Music School may shut appeared first […]
A couple of weeks ago, Yusif Eyvazov changed managements. Nothing earth-shattering about that except that it was a move he made alone, independently of his powerful wife, the soprano Anna Netrebko. Today, the couple announced […]
The soprano Anna Netrebko and her tenor husband Yusif Eyvazov have told the Austrian Press Agency that their marriage is over. ‘After ten happy years together, we have made the difficult but friendly decision to […]
