Bobby Darin Just in Time, the musical about the late Bobby Darin, was the only major Tony contender I didn’t manage to see while I was in New York, although I tried, but here, to […]
The pianist Charles Wadsworth, Spoleto’s founding Artistic Director of Chamber Music, has died in New York. He also created and ran the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, from 1969 to 1989. Charles is survived […]
The Vienna Philharmonic has replaced an unwell Franz Welser-Möst in four concerts next weekend with Ivan Fischer. The programme is unchanged: Haydn’s 52nd, followed by Das Lied von der Erde. Minnesota Orchestra, too will have […]
Our resident critic has spent two nights at the opera: When the full history of sin is written, I hope it attends to why so many artists of the nineteenth century paid such great attention […]
A message from violinist Maxim Vengerov: Fantastic to see Barenboim at his home. I am so proud to have studied with him for so many years, play so many concerts and recorded with him both […]
A rightwing Trumpist Floyd Brown says he has been fired as VP of development at Kennedy Center after just two weeks. His appointment was never announced through any formal process. Brown declared it two weeks […]
The Austrian tabloid Kurier has reported the death of its former showbiz reporter Peter Kupfer, who turned chasing stars into a profitable business. The personable Kupfer was manager of star tenors José Carreras, Juan Diego […]
The former head of the Sazburg Festival, La Scala Milan and the Maggio Musicale has been found guilty in Florence on two counts of using money from the opera house without authority. Pereira, 77, was […]
In the week that composer Per Nørgård passed away, we are informed of the death of the important conductor Tamás Vetö. He died a week after his 90th birthday. A fugitive from the 1956 Hungarian […]
The body of Edward Grantham was found inside inside his house in Sydney’s Croydon district after a huge fire. Ted, who was 80, was a well-known organist and composer of the opera “Bitter Innocence”. He […]
