The Dutch choral world is in mourning for Bas Ramselaar, an imperious bass singer and chorus conductor who has died after a seven-month illness. Bas enjoyed an international career as soloist with majopr orchestras.
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The Cleveland music director, who has received successful cancer treatment over 15 months, is apparently not quite ready to return for this month’s limelight cycle of Beethoven piano concertos with Igor Levit. The orchestra has […]
The new production at Arena di Verona has been totally detached from Verdi’s story of Jewish exiles in Babylon. The costumes are space suits, the stage set looks like a post-modern, peripheral bus terminus and […]
Calum Finaly’s Fanny in rehearsal at Watermill Theatre (Photo: Pamela Raith Photography) When Queen Victoria invited Felix Mendelssohn to perform for her at a personal concert and play her favourite song, Italien, the composer had […]
