It’s August. There are daily review and reports from Salzburg, Bayreuth, the BBC Proms, Edinburgh…. even Schleswig-Holstein. What’s missing? Verbier. Despite attracting big-name performers and high-worth audiences, the Swiss mountain-tent festival has lost almost all […]
The conductor Daniel Lipton, founder of Opera Bogotá in Colombia and opera Ontario in Canada, has died in reitrement in Tampa, Florida. Born in Paris to refugee parents, Lipton was General Music Director in Dessau, […]
The Organist Emeritus at Leeds Minster, Dr Simon Lindley, has died at the age of 76. He served as Leeds City Organist from 1976 to 2017. Simon was also conductor of Sheffield Bach Choir until […]