Messages of sorrow and sympathy have poured in overnight for Pierre Audi, director of the Aix-en-Provence festival, who died suddenly at 67. Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam: It is with great sadness that we learned of the […]
Shakespeare Click here to sign up As far as I’m concerned, it’s Shakespeare’s birthday every day. There’s so much Shakespeare available now online from a multiplicity of websites. Starry casts for Much Ado About Nothing (David Tennant), The […]
Hanna Balcer, 14, who went missing in outer London, was brought home by police at 6am yesterday after being recognised by a member of the public from media appeals. Her mother said: ‘I can’t put […]
Shocking news has arrived of the death of Pierre Audi, director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival and one of the most influential creators of new works of opera. Pierre, who died in Beijing without warning during […]
AskonasHolt has signed the Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, winner of the 2024 Leeds piano competition. He is from British Colombia, of Hungarian-Ukrainian heritage. The post Leeds winner finds agent appeared first on Slippedisc.
Julia Wolfe appointed the Orchestra’s first Composer in Residence, with four works featured in the season, including a newly commissioned symphonic arrangement of her Pulitzer-winning Anthracite Fields Focus on opera, with Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier […]
One of opera’s greatest depictions of impossible love, Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Massenet thought long and hard about adapting Goethe’s story of a melancholy poet whose love for a married […]
Jonathan Sells (Photo: Paul Marc Mitchell) In April, the Monteverdi Choir released a disc of motets by Bruckner and Gesualdo conducted by Jonathan Sells on the Soli Deo Gloria label. Recorded live in concert in […]
The Delaware Symphony has named Michelle Di Russo as its next music director. She’s from Argentina, a former Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a Taki-Alsop graduate. The post Baton round: Argentine takes […]
Playing in the Orchestre symphonique de Québec for the past three years, Marlène Ngalissamy has been named principal bassoon of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Born in Moscow, Marlène moved to Canada at ten years and […]
%20Craig%20Fuller.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Sonic & dramatic splendour: Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo & a strong cast demonstrate the richness to be found in Handel's Saul to open the London Handel Festival")
