Salzburg – Hofstallgasse at Night (Photo: TSG Breitegger) For Markus Hinterhäuser, artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, the main theme of the 2025 Festival (18 July to 31 August 2025) can be summed up in […]
Gustavo Dudamel has only ever had one agent, an Englishman called Mark Newbanks. His firm, Fidelio Arts, has looked after at various times Yuja Wang, Lionel Bringuier and others, but Dudamel was always the main […]
Inner Temple Hall in its modern incarnation built in the 1950s Handel: Solomon; Tim Mead, Rowan Pierce, Hilary Cronin, Frances Gregory, Anna Dennis, James Way, Morgan Pearse, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh; Temple Music […]
There has been much chatter of late on this site and elsewhere on the predominance of Finns in the global podium. From a nation that conducts intense conversations chiefly with its shoelaces, this phenomenon is […]
The Finnish-Ukrainian Dalia Stasevska has been renewed as principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra until September 2027. She has also been making a strong impression on US orchestras. Expect a title soon. The […]
Philip Ellis, conductor of Birmingham Royal Ballet, is stepping down in Marech after 35 years. He has conducted the Royal Ballet Sinfonia more than two thousand times. The post Conductor steps down in Birmingham appeared […]
This is what they did at the Staatsoper when Jonas sang Bajazzo this week for the first time in Vienna. The Italian tenor Luciano Ganci jumped in as Turiddu in place of the unwell Jonathan […]
The IMG mezzo Raehann Bryce-Davis has been whisked in to sing Amneris in a run of Aidas, starting January 28. She replaces Ekaterina Semenchuk. Anna Pirozzi sings the title role. Raehann, a Manhattan School of […]
We hear that Matias Naske has appointed a new head of artistic planning at the Konzerthaus in place of Rico Gulda, who is leaving after 12 years. The newcomer is Ann-Paulin Steigerwald, Head of Concerts […]
Mahler – Symphony No. 3. Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano); Tiffin Choirs Children’s Choir; London Symphony chorus; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 15 January, 2025 The Simón Bolivar Symphony […]
