Stephen Sondheim would have been 95 today and in celebration here’s a little gem. Imelda Staunton performs ‘Losing my mind’ from Follies, recorded live at the National Theatre in 2017 in the production directed by Dominic Cooke, featuring an orchestra of 21. On YouTube.
The London Philharmonic last night played works by Saariaho, Prokofiev and Nielsen at the Royal Festival Hall. The conductor was the underrated Finn Hannu Lintu and the soloist was Alina Ibragimova. If any European orchestra […]
The Rachmaninoff Conservatory of Paris, founded in 1923 by the exiled Fyodor Chaliapin and Alexander Glazunov, has inaugurated a statue of its namesake. The sculptor is Besik Solomonashvili and the image looks more like FDR […]
The company has announced a triple change at the top. The new music director Andrea Battistoni has jobs all over the world and will have little attention to devote to deep-seated woes. The new board […]
