The English National Opera board has appointed Jenny Mollica as Chief Executive of ENO and the London Coliseum. She has been Interim CEO for the past nine months. No surprises there. Mollica was previously Director […]
The Chinese-US pianist Yuja Wang is returning for six more immersive concerts at the David Hockney exhibition in London this September. She says: ‘The concerts last year at Lightroom were completely different to any other […]
Munich’s new production of Puccini’s shocker is set in 1975 in Rome where Pier Paolo Pasolini is filming ‘The 120 Days of Sodom’. The Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó opens his interpretation with fascist soldiers leading […]
Calum Finaly’s Fanny in rehearsal at Watermill Theatre (Photo: Pamela Raith Photography) When Queen Victoria invited Felix Mendelssohn to perform for her at a personal concert and play her favourite song, Italien, the composer had […]
Jack Bazalgette (Photo: Ehimetalor Unuabona) Since 2020, through the noise has programmed more than 130 classical music concerts in non-traditional venues using an innovative crowd-funding model to widen audience appeal [see my review of their recent […]
Music in the Midnight Sun – Toronto Symphony For many of us, the Arctic exists only as a fantasy of snow and polar bears and endangered icebergs. Ignorant as ever, I didn’t realise that people […]
Thomas Roseingrave: Eight Harpsichord Suites and other keyboard works; Bridget Cunningham; Signum ClassicsReviewed 20 May 2024 Demonstrating the 18th-century Britain had more than one distinguished harpsichord composer, this disc explores the engaging, complex and quirky […]
After five years with the biggest vacancy in the orchestral world, the Boston Symphony today presented Nathan Cole as its new concertmaster. He is presently first associate concertmaster with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. More follows. […]
The latest musicians to win public auditions for management are: Amiri Harewood (piano, pictured) Fibonacci Quartet (string quartet) James Morley (cello) The post Concert Artists/YCAT take on 3 more appeared first on Slippedisc.
We are hearing from members of the National Symphony Orchestra who are outraged at nhaving to accompany a concert by Killer Mike & The Mighty Midnight Revival. The official blurb reads: A never-before-seen concert experience! […]
