The storm-tossed Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra has a new chief executive – its fifth in a decade – and he has arrived with a masterplan. Jung Jae-wal brandished the plan at a press conference this morning […]
The national company has replaced a Peter Grimes production in December with a topical new staging of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Alexander Joel conducts. The post Israel Opera stages War Requiem appeared […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: In the early days of long-playing records. a man in a suit at EMI realised that the Grieg and Schumann concertos were half an hour long, in the […]