The Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber is taking over this week’s Cosi fan tutti in Hamburg, a full year before he starts work as Generalmusikdirektor.
The Bremen kapellmeister William Kelley (pictured) will conduct the remaining performances. He’s from North Carolina and fast becoming a Hamburg favourite.
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We’re excited to report that the relentlessly serious opera-buff bible Avant-Scène Opéra will resume publication in November after being shut down by its previous owner in February. Jules Cavalié, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine, says: ‘I […]
International outcry prompted by slippedisc.com’s report of Milwaukee Ballet’s cancellation of its orchestra has prompted the company to revise its plans. Here’s the latest from the MB website: You may have heard that, due to […]
The death has been announced of Russell Malone, a prodigious jazz guitarist who worked with many leading artists, latterly with Harry Connick Jr. and Diana Krall. The post Top guitarist dies, 60 appeared first on […]
