The tenor is sick this week. Next week, he’s expected in the Bowl.# Soprano Diana Damrau writes: In less than a week, @tenorkaufmann and I will reunite once again to sing a program of operetta […]
The music faculty of Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, have been informed that the department is to be eliminated at the end of the current academic year. Five full-time faculty and 17 part-time adjuncts will […]
A report from slippedisc.com by Susan Hall: The major event at New York’s Little Island this summer is an abbreviated version of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro with all seven roles sung by premier countertenor Anthony […]
The brilliant Bossa Nova pioneer has died in Los Angeles, aged 83. The cause, say his family, was long Covid. Mendes settled in the US in the 1960s amid political and military turbulence in Brazil […]
Forget the on-stage drama. San Francisco Opera has got itself into a knife-edge thrller with its orchestra musicians, who are out of contract. On Friday night, moments before Un Ballo in Maschera, the Orchestra agreed […]
Anthony Checchia, who played a vital role at Marlboro Music for nhalf a century, died this weekend, aged 94. His is survived by his wife, soprano Benita Valente and their son Peter. From the Marlboro […]
The death has been announced, after a long illness, of the drum professor Martin France. Using electronic and sequenced drums and percussion, France featured on more than 100 albums and appeared regularly in Hamburg with […]
Waitress – Stage musical Rent or buy The Broadway musical Waitress is now available to rent and buy across a variety of streaming platforms for the many UK fans of the show. Based on the film of […]
We have learned belatedly of the death from Alzheimers complications of the cellist Gayle Mae Smith, a pupil of Casals in Puerto Rico and of Piatigorsky in Los Angeles (pictured). She enjoyed an international solo […]
Just in: The event JONAS KAUFMANN & Slovak Philharmonic, which was supposed to take place on 8th September 2024 at 7pm, is postponed due to health reasons of Mr. Kaufmann for a new date on […]