Dido laments in Russian

From Bruce Duffie’s 1990 interview in Chicago with the Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who died this week: RS: I must tell you little story. I know Shostakovich personally, himself, because my father a few years […]

press release: Washington National Opera (WNO) presents the highly-anticipated The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, created by Kennedy Center’s first Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. The Grammy Award®-winning opera, which follows the life of […]

The festival, which lost all of its staff six months ago, has named Jack Bazalgette as artistic director from 2o25. Bazalgette is a Hackney-based conductor who has worked as chorusmaster with the Prague Symphony Orchestra […]