The unsettlingly slow avantgardist Alexander Knaifel died today suddenly at the age of 80.
He made his living writing for Soviet movies and his reputation with two Eng-lit operas, operas The Ghost of Canterville and Alice in Wonderland. He was almost a minimalist, but too edgy to be classified.
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The death has been reported of Nuala Willis, an English stage and costume designer who went on to enjoy an extensive career for 35 years as an opera singer. Nuala was 83. She is survived […]
We’re hearing breath-stopping accounts of the Rosenkavalier revival at La Scala, conducted by Kirill Petrenko of the Berlin Philharmonic in his first appearance at the matrix of Italian opera. Giornale della Musica reports ‘endless applause’ […]
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