Waterperry Opera Festival, near Oxford, has appointed John Savournin as CEO and Artistic Director from September. Savournin is an active bass-baritone with leading UK opera companies. The post Bass-baritone to run opera festival appeared first […]
The chair of the Elgar Society has notified members of the death of Diana McVeagh, a noted authority on the music of Edward Elgar and a biographer of Gerald Finzi. Diana was 98. Her interests […]
A reader points out: The quiet resignation of Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz, Jason Moran, leaves only classical artists on the Center’s artistic payroll: Gianandrea Noseda, Steven Reineke, Carlos Simon, Jennifer Koh, Francesca Zambello […]
Arabella Arts has taken on worldwide management for Leslie Suganandaraja, music director at the Salzburg Landestheatersoce 2019. Suganandarajah’s family fled the civil war in Sri Lanka when he was a boy and settled in Hannover. […]
The composer and pianist Jason Moran has resigned as the Kennedy Center’s artistic director for jazz. He posted: ‘Thank you to the composers, comedians, choreographers, performance artists, skateboarders, filmmakers, authors, illustrators, dancers, photographers, sculptors, scientists, […]
The Bavarian resort of Dießen am Ammersee plans to open its composer museum on November 2. Orff died in 1982. The Carmina royalties keep rolling in. The museuem is funded by the Carl Orff foundation. […]
The city has published plans to cut subsidies to the opera and the Gewandhaus by €914,200 in 2026. That’s close to US$1 million. Overall, Leipzig in trimming its spending by around 1 percent. The biggest […]
Last night, the Russians bombed the home of the rector of the Kyiv Conservatory, also known as the National Music Academy. ‘Our home was directly hit,’ said Maksym Tymoshenko Many in Kyiv spent the night […]
The next music director of the Gran Teatre de Liceu is to be the British conductor Jonathan Nott. He succeeds Josep Pons, who has held the post for 14 years. Nott, 62, has been chief […]
A tweeter posted this list of ‘top’ 7th symphonies: 1. Beethoven 2. Bruckner 3. Mahler 4. Dvorak 5. Sibelius 6. Arnold 7. Shostakovich 8. Rubbra 9. Prokofiev 10. Glazunov I’d replace half of them. 1 […]
