Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade at Vache Baroque in 2024 (Photo: Michael Wheatley) – [see my review] The 17th-century English tradition of the dramatick opera (often called semi-opera nowadays) remains a fascinating challenge for modern performers with much […]
The new tenured concertmaster of Neue Philharmonie Westfalen in the north Rhine area is the Korean violinist Sun Shin Keiner. Originally from Seoul, she studied with Kyung Sun Lee, Andreas Röhn and Günter Pichler. […]
After a longer than expected absence for two leg surgeries, Christian Thielemann is back rehearsing at the Vienna State Opera. The work is a lifelong favourite – Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina, about a composer who showed […]