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 orchestra has confirmed Ryan Fleur as CEO, replacing Mathias Tarnopolsky, who has gone to the New York Phil. Fleur has acted in an interim capacity since Tarnopolsky left in January. Fleur has been part […]
We have received depressing reports of the shrunken state of the Teatro Colon, South America’s foremost opera house. Next season contains just six operas, the following season five. The conductors – Beatrice Venezi and Zoe […]
This is a tremendous coupling. We have been looking at quite a lot of Respighi of late (orchestral works from Wuppertal; orchestral transcriptions of Bach and Rachmaninnov from Liège; his operas Maria Egiziaca and La […]
