The Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition has been won by the South Korean baritone Jungrae Noah Kim.
Of the 121 contestants from 39 nations who made it into the finals in the Latvian town of Jurmala, 20 were South Korean, 15 were from Ukraine and ten from China.
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Two torrential downpours cost the Austrian laketop festival half a million dollars in ticket refunds. They’ve done the sums and started dismantling the Freischütz set ahead of schedule. Bit of a washout. Read here. The […]
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Check out this SWR event with Ingo Metzmacher and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. It respects the audience’s intelligence, taste and humour. György Ligeti: Lontano Dmitri Shostakovitch: 1st violin concerto György Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre Karl Amadeus […]
