The serene and much-recorded Polish concert and opera singer Jadwiga Rappé died this weekend. She performed in most major venues and appeared on 56 recordings, including Wagner with Bernard Haitink and works of Lutoslawski and Penderecki with the composers.
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The third page of the Times this morning is occupied by two stories that are not news. The first concerns a virtual reality device that is being pioneered by the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, […]
Chorus members at Teatro San Carlo in Naples have instructed lawyers to take action for defamation against the English conductor Ed Gardner, who recently told the Times newspaper that the opera chorus was ‘made up […]
The Telegraph has a fine obituaty of the National Youth Music Theatre director, who died of cancer in November at the age of 67. The National Youth Music Theatre, which counts among its alumni Idris […]
