A concert at the Teatro Maggio Musicale to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s death was cancelled due to a general strike of public workers across Italy.
Politics came first.
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Dame Sarah Connolly & Mark Padmore in discussion at the Bailey Concert Singers Symposium Coaching and masterclasses for singers tends to be focused, understandably, on the wider solo repertoire but the Bailey Concert Singers’ Symposium […]
I very much regret the loss of Sytze Smit, campaigning editor of the excellent magazine Entr’acte. A former violinist in the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sytze relentlessly callewdout cliques and corruption in Dutch musical life. He […]
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