The Three Choirs Festival is at Hereford this year, running from 26 July to 2 August 2025 with its familiar mix of large-scale choral concerts, chamber recitals, late-night events and family friendly programmes. The programme […]
Daniele Gatti, defeated by Myung Whun Chung in the race to succeed Riccardo Chailly at La Scala, has cancelled all his engagements at the theatre next season, according to La Repubblica. This may be wounded […]
Ajax and Cassandra by Solomon J. Solomon, 1886. The composer Ben Rowarth is a figure whose music I have enjoyed over the last few years with works for the Marian Consort, Helen Charlston, and the […]
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra – Roland Wood, Antony Hermus, Vazgen Gazaryan, Opera North (Photo: James Glossop) Verdi: Simon Boccanegra; Roland Wood, Sara Cortolezzis, Andrés Presno, Vazgen Gazaryan, Mandla Mndebele, Richard Mosley-Evans, director: PJ Harris, conductor: Anthony […]
Naxos has previously released another recording of Fazil Say’s music for violin featuring violinist Friedemann Eichhorn, which included his 2 fantastic Sonatas for Violin and Piano and his more familiar (and somewhat more oft recorded) […]
The Helsinki jury has pronounced: Gabrielle Després (Canada, b.2000) Otto Antikainen (Finland, b.1999) Claire Wells (US, b.2001) Minami Yoshida (Japan, b.1998) Amia Janicki (Switzerland, b.1997) Sueye Park (South Korea, b.2000) The post Just in: […]
They have lost a good music director and can’t land another. So who jumps in? Reveal here. Have they got a drinking problem, too? Concert-only guests (21+) are invited to a complimentary preconcert reception featuring […]
Riccardo Chailly today presented his last season as music director . He will open with Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, directed by the Russian, Vasily Barkhatov. It will be the 12th time Chailly has conducted the […]
Graham Ross, Director of Music at Clare College, has been hospitalised for almost a fortnight after an assault in the centre of the town. He writes: Two weeks ago, at the end of a wonderful […]
Reports are still sketchy but it appears that Brazilian star Wagner Carvalho lost a finger while dancing Spartacus at the Kazan Opera and Ballet. The injury occurred in the first act as Carvalho fought a […]
