Donizetti: Maria Stuarda – Nino Gotoshia, Lisette Oropesa – Salzburg Festival 2025 (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) For the 2026 Salzburg Festival, the Intendant, Markus Hinterhäuser has taken Roland Barthes’ 1977 book A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (Fragments […]
Stationers Hall In 1683, a group of musicians and music lovers got together as the Musical Society of London and organised a St Cecilia’s Day concert (22 November) for which Henry Purcell wrote Welcome to all the […]
We have been notified of the passing of Mikhail Muntian, a prolific Russian keyboard player who toured as regular accompanist to the violist Yuri Bashmet. Muntian started out as harpsichordist in Rudolf Barshai’s Moscow Chamber […]