The Swedish conductor will celebrate his 97th birthday on Thursday with a performance of Bruckner’s ninth symphony.
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%20(c)%20Russell%20Duncan.jpeg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Puccini's final version of La Rondine, a recital from Simon Boccanegra and Donizetti Songs: Opera Rara's 2025/26 season")
Ermonela Jaho & Carlo Rizzi recording Donizetti for Opera Rara (Photo: Russell Duncan) By and large, Puccini’s operas do not have complex musicological issues surrounding them. He made substantial revisions to Madama Butterfly, but the […]
The St Pauk Chamber Orchestra functions with artistic partners, not directors. Its players say they prefer to go conductorless. However…. they have just chosen a new artsitic partner and he is a conductor. Gábor Takács-Nagy, […]
The standard work on the Russian composer for the past four decades has been the four-volume study by David Brown, an English musicologist at the University of Southampton. Brown was a proponent of the narrative […]
