Next summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival presents a version of Britten’s opera redesigned for pinchpenny times: A mystery of origins and formal uncertainty shroud the story of Billy Budd, both in its operatic version, combining the libretto […]
Among many tributes today to the prolific German composer: Leipzig Volkszeitung: The last great German composer. Michael Haefliger: Wolfgang Rihm, the leader of our Lucerne Festival Academy passed away last night. We are in tears […]
The pianist has told a Chinese interview that he is big on Weibo, state-monitored social social media. He has to feed the beast: ‘I’m also creating my own vlogs now. I document every place I […]