Shanghai media are reporting that Katharina Wagner is in town to sign a three-year residency with Shanghai Grand Theatre, running from 2025 to 2027. The deal is for Tristan und Isolde, Walküre and Tannhäuser to […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The most influential Irishman in the history of music is not Bob Geldof, Bono, Sinead O’Connor or the Dubliners, all of whom are famous as influenza, but a […]
The revived 16th International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition in Salonika ended with the jury, chaired by Thomas Sanderling, withholding first prize. Second went to a Russian, Sergey Akimov. Third was shared between Oliver Cope (UK) and […]