Local philanthropist Penelope Steiner has signed a check to her favourite opera house, where she is deputy board chair.
The gift is described as ‘unprecedented, unrestricted’.
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The Divertimento Symphony Orchestra was conducted at the Olympics closing ceremony by its founder Zahia Ziouani. She’s French-Algerian, born in Paris in 1978, twin sister of the cellist Fettouma Ziouani. Benjamin Bernheim sang Fauré’s Hymn […]
Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims – Wexford Festival Opera (Photo: Pádraig Grant) Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims; Wexford Factory, director Rosetta Cucchi, conductor Manuel Hartinger, Wexford Festival Opera; National Opera HouseReviewed 31 October 2025 A […]
Totally unexpected. In 1971, John Rutter published Fancies, a set of six short pieces for choir and chamber orchestra, on texts taken from Elizabethan poets. Rutter explained, “The ‘fancies’ are the fleeting ideas, dreams and […]
