The death has been published of Celso Garrido-Lecca, a prominent figure in choral music across the sub-continent. He was best known as a close associate of the songwriter Victor Jara in Chile up to 1973.
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The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts has chosen the cellist and singer Salome Kammer to be head of its music section. Kammer, 65, is the first woman to hold the post since the Academy’s foundation […]
The state theatre in Augsburg was in trouble when its experienced intendant Florian Stiehler resigned this year. What to do in a crisis? They called in a lawyer, Ulrike Kuhrdt. She took charge so effectively […]
The conductor takes time out in Berlin to talk through his first performance of Janacek’s comic opera with its leading singer Peter Hoare. In true Broucek fashion, they have a beer and bratwurst. The beer, […]
