The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra rolled out Simon Rattle’s third season this morning. It features a call-out to amateur orchestras across Bavaria to join the orchestra in the great big sing-a-ding, culminating in Carmina Burana. […]
At his concert last night in Manchester, Bruce Springsteen did not mince his words. He told the English crowd: ‘In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a […]
The Gerhswins Michael Feinstein is a beloved cabaret performer, pianist, singer and conductor whose encyclopaedic knowledge of, and performance of, the songs of George and Ira Gershwin, among many others, has entertained us for many […]
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 […]
