Anna Netrebko and husband Yusif Eyvazov star in next week’s new production of Puccini’s Turandot at La Scala, directed by Davide Livermore. No doubt North Korea will be celebrating the cultural cooperation. The post The […]
Message received: It is with great regret that Sondra Radvanovsky has had to withdraw from the title role of Turandot on The Royal Opera’s Japan tour due to a severe ear infection and sinusitis. She […]
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2024 has engaged Lithuanian performance-based artist Lina Lapelytė as Composer in Residence. Her duties? Born in Kaunas, Lapelytė is known for a performance-based practice rooted in music, flirting with pop culture, […]
Recent events are uncannily reminiscent of the T. S Eliot play, drawn from a memoir by a terrified Canterbury clerk. Here’s the 2024 update: Act 1 Director of Music Andrew Lumsden is dragged from the […]
The Scottish Ensemble Collaboration is at the heart of the Scottish Ensemble’s recently announced 2024/25 season. A season that includes new work by Hannah Kendall, a new collaboration with fiddle player and violinist Donald Grant, […]
Gershwin, Kapustin, Bonds, Norton, Wave, Arlen/Jarrett Yuki Negishi (piano). Holy Trinity Church, South Woodford, 2pm, 16.06.2024 Gershwin Three Preludes (1926) Kapustin Contemplation, Op. 47 (1987) Margaret Bonds Troubled Water Christopher Norton Bulgarian Sketches (2023) Sally Wave Sunshine Droplets Falling in the […]
Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: Stífluhringurinn; Caput Ensemble; Carrier RecordsReviewed 18 June 2024 Music like no other. The Icelandic composer returns with a long, single work for large ensemble that mines his fondness for contemplating timbres and […]
Christopher Morley, long-serving arts editor of the Birmingham Post, has written an op-ed today attacking its flailing management and failing reputation. Here goes: The name of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra glows […]
The Greensboro Symphony has named Christopher Dragon as its music director, the first in two decades. Born in Perth to Singapore parents, Dragon is also music director of the Wyoming Symphony. The post Aussie wins […]
The Italian harpsichordist, pianist, and conductor Ottavio Dantone is taking over as music director of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music for the next five years. Over this time the Accademia Bizantina from Ravenna, Italy, […]
