The soprano Denise Dupleix, whose death is reported today, burst onto the scene at Tours in 1950 with the Bell Song from Lakmé. For the next four decades she was a high-note star in both Paris opera houses. As you can hear below, she was astonishing in her prime.
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Michelle Agyemang, aged 19, saved England at the World Cup by equalising in the last two minutes of normal time. To keep a level head, she plays piano. Michelle tells the FA website: ‘I have […]
Five staffers have resigned and one has been fired for wearing pro-Palestine propaganda at work. The arts centre, founded in 1874 as a Jewish facility, hosts many classical music performances. Story here. The post Gaza […]
By Gina Thomas in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: … Brendel’s coffin was carried into the church to the strains of the long first movement of Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, performed by the Quator […]
