Gatti huffs out of La Scala
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 […]
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The Fall: Siglo de Oro give premiere of Ben Rowarth’s new work on Cassandra & the Fall of Troy
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 […]
Powerful stuff: Opera North concludes its concert staging of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra with an evening filling the Royal Festival Hall with drama
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 […]
Fantastic chamber music from Fazil Say (and a new violin concerto)
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) […]
Just in: The Sibelius finalists are 5-1 women
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: […]
Who’s opening the San Francisco season?
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 […]
What’s next for La Scala
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 […]
Cambridge music director is beaten up by a stranger
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 […]
Dancer has finger cut off in mid-ballet
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 […]
Justin time with Chopin
For the second successive week, an unstarred soloist on a pianino tops the global streaming charts of Apple Classical. You read it here exclusively (and here’s the top 100). 1 Chopin intime Justin Taylor 2 […]
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