The 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award, worth $50,000, has been allocated by the Met to US soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen. She has been appearing at the Met sinc e 2014.
Next seasib she is due to protray Richard Strauss’s Arabella.
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Through the Centuries: Songs by Madeleine Dring; Kitty Whately, Julius Drake; ChandosReviewed 15 April 2026 If you thought Madeleine Dring’s songs were confined to camp nightclubs then think again. Here Kitty Whately and Julius Drake […]
,%20Giorgio%20Vasari,%20Palazzo%20Vecchio,%20Florence.jpg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "One little book sitting in a convent: Laurie Stras introduces the background to Musica Secreta's new recording of music from the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript")
The Siege of Florence (1558) by Giorgio Vasari, Palazzo Vecchio, FlorenceSan Matteo in Arcetri is the reddish building in the bottom left of the picture Musica Secreta is the UK’s only all-female Renaissance ensemble. Their […]
Here’s another rare memento of Myra, ten years after the previous collectible. She has a splendidly leisured way of telling an anecdote. The post Myra Hess: the Proms interview appeared first on Slippedisc.
