The Salzburg Schokolade company has issued its final batch of Mirabell Mozartkugeln. The American owner, Mondelez, has decided to move production abroad. But no location or date has been fixed for resumption. The Salzburg factory […]
Beethoven NOVO Quartet. Wigmore Hall, London, 3pm, 19.01.2025 (CC) String Quartets: No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18/4 (1799/1800); No. 9 in C, Op. 59/3, Razumovsky’ (1806) The NOVO Quartet of Denmark won the 77th […]
Cynthia Erivo Click here to watch Cynthia Chinasaokwu Onyedinmanasu Amarachukwu Owezuke Echimino Erivo celebrates her 38th birthday this week. I’m being pernickety about her proper name as I was rightly taken to task recently for […]
The Trinidadian singer Jeanine de Bique has been receiving some critical heat in Paris over her French diction as Telaire in Rameau’s Telaire Castor et Pollux at the Opéra. She’s not going to take that. […]
The agency has ‘reintroduced’ its classical touring division in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and South America. Peter Ansell of Intermusica joins as executive VP and head of department. See also: The case for […]
Orchestra consultant Thomas Wolf throws down a gauntlet: Let’s say you are an aging professional athlete who has enjoyed a successful career in your sport but you are no longer competing at a peak professional […]
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In her first interview as intendant of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Elisabeth Sobotka says she is cancelling one production in the 2025-26 season – which one has yet to be decided. The company is […]
Now the Federal Government has laid off all of its diversity staff, there will be orchestras up and down the USA who will want to be sacking their vice-presidents in charge of Diversity, Equity and […]
On the Transmigration of Souls: Haydn, Kurtág, Adams. Anna Devin (soprano); Hanna Hipp (mezzo); Rupert Charlesworth (tenor); Trevor Eliot Bowes (bass); Tiffin Youth Choir; London Philharmonic Choir; Jonathan Green (sound designer); London Philharmonic Orchestra / […]
