Message from the ochestra director, Andreas Schulz: With pride and great joy we look forward to the launch of GEWANDHAUS RADIO on 12 May 2025 – a unique classic channel in the world, dedicated exclusively […]
Marinus Komst, solo timpanist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1991 until his retirement, died today at the age of 72. His grandfather, who bore the same name, was the orchestra’s solo trumpet. The post […]
The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that Arsenije Lojovic, the hit-and-run driover responsible for the death of conductor Boris Brott, will serve eight years in jail instead of ten.Lojovic has two prior driving convictions. […]
Lynne Turner, who was appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1962 by Music Director Fritz Reiner, will retire at the end of this summer’s Ravinia Festival, it was announced today. Turner first appeared with […]
Four days after the sudden death of its artistic director, the Aix-en-Provence Festival has called in its former chief. Bernard Foccroulle has been appointed advisor for the 2025 edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Foccroulle, 71, […]
From an article by the singer Ian Bostridge in Prospect magazine: I only met Pierre Boulez (born 1925) once, and the circumstances were not propitious. Back in 2010, I’d been asked to sing in Stravinsky’s […]
Conclave Click here to rent In view of the recent death of Pope Francis I thought you might like to know that Conclave, the recent Oscar-winning movie about the election of a Pope, starring a […]
They include Harrison Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy (what’s that in German?), George Benjamin’s Written on Skin and Bluthochzeit by Wolfgang Fortner. Not to mention, among the revivals, Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Passenger, Blühen by Vito Žuraj, […]
The festival opera published next season’s plans this morning. 1 Puccini’s Tosca, directed by Ted Huffman 2 Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo 3 Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos along with revivals of Rossini’s Il turco in Italia, Britten’s Billy […]
Tomorrow, on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, the Munich Philharmonic will play a concert with 50 musicians from the Israel Philharmonic. Lahav Shani will conduct Tzvi Avni’s ‘Prayer’ for […]
