The Observer music critic Fiona Maddocks rates Death in Venice as her signature opera experience of the year. Read her full rankings here.
There is stgill time to add your top 3 to the Slippedisc top picks of the year, here.
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The populist tenor Russell Watson has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Greater Manchester ‘in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music and the arts’. Watson, 59, has survived two brain tumours. […]
The game of smoke and mirrors that is English National Opera took an absurd turn this morning when the company’s incoming music director was hired by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in the same post. […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Where has my week gone? Much of it was spent plundering a coffin of one of the most captivating violinists that ever lived. David Oistrakh, Odessa born (thus […]
