Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s new venue is to be known as the Farmer Music Center after $60 million gift from the Farmer Family Foundation. Robert McGrath, CSO President, said: ‘This extraordinary gift … represents a transformative […]
The 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award, worth $50,000, has been allocated by the Met to US soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen. She has been appearing at the Met sinc e 2014. Next seasib she is due to […]
The Telegraph presents what it claims to be ‘the true face of Ludwig van Beethoven’, reimagined by a Brazilian scholar. Scientists created the first-ever 3D reconstruction of the treasured composer’s head by analysing his skull, […]
The overextended Norwegian conductor has found time to commission a new cello for himself and a violin for his girlfriend Amanda Håoy Horn at an Italian luthier in Florence. Amanda now plays in the Oslo […]
We have received this report from Taryn Luterbach, who runs a boutique artist management agency from the town of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada . Regina is a small city of less than 300,000 people, but […]
This is slightly out of the ordinary. A festival in Australia has appointed the concertmaster of the nearest orchestra to be its next director. She is Kate Suthers of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The event […]
A critical sentence on an opera-fan website has entangled Leipzig Oper in a body-shaming storm. The site is deropernfreund.de, the author is Dieter David Scholz and the opera is Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, which ought […]
Le Sacre du Printemps The first performance of Le Sacre du Printemps took place in Paris 112 years ago this week on May 29, 1913. This groundbreaking ballet with its radical music and choreography by […]
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival (II) Mother Goose Ensemble 360. Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield, 18.05.2025 Ravel Mother Goose Suite (1908/11,arr. Farrington) Farrenc Sextet in C minor, Op. 40 (1851/2) Duruflé Prélude récitaif et variations Op. 3 (1928) […]
This year Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival not only returns for its 18th edition, but is expanding and there with performances in Newcastle and London. Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival is at Alphabetti Theatre in […]
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