The brilliant Bossa Nova pioneer has died in Los Angeles, aged 83. The cause, say his family, was long Covid.
Mendes settled in the US in the 1960s amid political and military turbulence in Brazil that saw him briefly arrested. His theme song (below) became an everlasting earworm.
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Frédéric Olivieri, director of the corps de ballet at La Scala Milan from 2002-07 and again from 2017-2020, is back – at least for the next two years. He replaces Manuel Legris, who departed with […]
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto – Robert Raso (Curio), Lucile Richardot (Cornelia), Yuriy Mynenko (Tolomeo), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Achilla) – Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Christophe Dumaux, Olga Kulchynska, Lucile Richardot, […]
From a correspondent in Berlin: Touching ceremony last night at the Staatsoper in Berlin when a very frail Daniel Barenboim received the title of Honorary Chief Conductor and ‘passed the baton’ to his successor, Christian […]
