City Opera has parted company with Michael Capasso, its general director. Contrary to the usual bromides, we hear the board voted him out. Either way, Capasso says he’s going to live in Italy.
The next Executive Director and Music Director is to be Constantine Orbelian (pic).
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Thorvaldsdottir, Ligeti, John Luther Adams BBC Symphony Orchestra / Dalia Stasevska (conductor). Barbican Hall, 8.10.2025 Thovaldsdottir ANCORA (2022) Ligeti Atmosphères (1961) John Luther Adams Become Ocean (2013) An extraordinary concert, but perhaps not in the way one might immediately think: to have three woks that rely mainly on texture is certainly out of the (ie, ‘extra’) […]
After a year’s probation, the Prague Philharmonia has apponted Pavla Tesařová as its new concertmaster. Pavla, 26, is founding leader of the Ševčík Quartet. The post New concertmaster in Prague appeared first on Slippedisc.
There has long been a theory that the German master lives on in the form of Valery Gergiev, the post-Soviet conductor who provided cultural reassurance and stability for the criminal regime of Vladimir Putin as […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "By turns illuminating & compelling: the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on terrific form in Britten & Vaughan Williams at the BBC Proms")
