We hear that the French star Ludovic Tézier has withdrawn from rehearsals and from the first night of the Bastille Opera’s new Rheinegold. He has flu.
He is to be replaced by the Scottish bass-baritone Iain Paterson (pic), who is married to the Paris Opera’s head of casting, Sophie Joyce Paterson.
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The Toronto Symphony is planning a Europe tour next winter with conductor Gustavo Gimeno. It has dates in Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Austria. Nothing in the UK. Why not? Because London’s main […]
We have been informed of the passing of Michel Poulet, cellist of the Ysaye Quartet, which disbanded in 2014. Poulet went on to teach at the Conservatoire in Toulouse. The post Death of Ysaye Quartet […]
From the Times’s full-page obit of Zamira Menuhin: Speaking of how Yehudi Menuhin’s desire to change the world never ended, she told how he was patron of more than 200 charities. “He just couldn’t say […]
