Friends have organised a new singing award for mezzo-sopranos in memory of Emma Kerr, a Glyndebourne chorus member who died tragically young during the collective Covid depression. In her memory, Katie Grosset, Jo Padfield and […]
Police have reportedly told residents of the upmarket London district of St Johns Wood to play loud classical music in order to keep crome of the streets that they no longer patrol. The NW8 area […]
Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde – Anthony Flaum, Meriel Cunningham – New Sussex Opera in 2021 (Photo Colin Chapman) Under Léon Carvalho, the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris had something of a miracle period in the 1860s. In […]
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Rosemary Carlton-Willis, Marcio da Silva, Joshua Furtado-Mendes – Ensemble OrQesta at Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn Festival, 2024 Ensemble OrQuesta, artistic director Marcio da Silva, whom we last heard at the […]
The baroque violinist Tekla Cunningham has founded a Bach festival in Seattle, gateway to the new. It opens next weekend in at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral , moving on to Lynnwood and Tacoma. Tekla says: […]
Violinist Roman Mints is the artistic director of WE ARE! Concert in Support of Ukraine, a night of music and solidarity to support Ukraine on Sunday 26 January 2025 at St John’s Church, Waterloo. The […]
Angelina Jolie went home empty-handed from the Golden Globes last night. Her portrayal of Maria Callas was outvoted by Fernanda Torres in I’m Still Here. The GGs are a dry run for the Oscars. None […]
The Romanian migrant Ionut Cibotariu was working on the catering team at the Flagey theatre in Brussels when a manager heard him practising backstage. From there to a recital was just a short contract. He […]
From the Tehran Times today: TEHRAN-The musical play “Violetta” directed by Neda Shahrokhi will be staged at the Art Palace in Tehran on Tuesday. It is an adaptation of “La Traviata” (The Fallen Woman), an […]
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, b. Brescia, January 5, 1920 (d. Lugano, 1995) Alfred Brendel, b Wizemberk, Cz, 5 January 1931 Maurizio Pollini, b Milano, 5 January 1942 The post Three piano giants were born today […]
