Canadian Opera extends top team
The Canadian Opera Company has renewed the contracts of COC Music Director Johannes Debus and Chorus Master Sandra Horst to 2029. COC says: Our audiences know that an opera with Johannes at the podium and […]
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Label news: Universal acquires Harmonia Mundi owner
The once-independent French classical label, based in Arles, was bought out by the Belgian group Pias in 2015. Two years ago, Universal took a 49% stake in Pias. Today it absorbed the rest of the […]
Minnesota conductor disbands his orchestra
Conductor Jay Fishman will give his last concerts with the Minnesota Sinfonia this weekend. After that, the orchestra will cease to exist. Fishman, 77, founded it in 1989 to play concerts in schools and for […]
Sudden death of young Vienna tenor
Friends have reported the death of Leonardo Navarro, a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble since 2017. No cause is yet known. Leo was 38. A Chilean who sang his first roles in at […]
Violin double-act breaks up
Months after signing on for an orchestral tour with German management firm K D Schmid, the Australian comedy duo TwoSet Violin has split up, taking down all their videos on social media. Their parting message […]
Bad air day: KLM bumps cellist with two kids
The Dutch flag carrier has lived up to national courtesy standards by refusing to board cellist Maja Bogdanović, her husband, violinist Daniel Rowland and their children aged one and three. KLM officials said the cello […]
Cliff Richard, 84, plans Australia and UK tours
The archetype British popster has enviable stamina. For his 85 birthday a year from now, he has announced tours Down Under and back home. Can’t be be long before he duets with Domingo. They are […]
NY Phil concertmaster buys a bow
The auction house Tarisio has gone public on the private sale of a bow to New York Philharmonic concertmaster Frank Huang. The bow was made in 1864 by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume’s best Parisian bowman, Pierre […]
Here’s $10 million, says orchestra chair
They are smiling in Cincinnati. Dianne Rosenberg, chair of the orchestra’s board of directors since 2022, and her husband, J. David Rosenberg, have pledged $10 million towards artistic and educational work and community engagement. The […]
First report: Vienna’s Endgame
The Israel composer Oded Zehavi attended the dress rehearsal today of György Kurtag’s late opera, Fin de Partie: There are similarities between Endgame and Wozzeck. Musical interpretation of great literary text is not easy: it […]
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