Ath the season-opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Alan Gilbert, the Hamburg audience warmly applauded after each of the first two movements of Mahler’s first symphony. Is this new normal, asks one of our […]
The German label Dabringhaus und Grimm has ordered an enoromous skip in which it will crunch up 20,000 unsold classical CDs, rather than paying a five-figure royalty demand from the collection agency Gema. Full story […]
The Italian singing Manrico in The Royal Opera’s Trovatore used to muscle in as an extra in movies with Hollywood stars. Riccardo Massi tells the Express he had funded his music studies as a stuntman […]