The Society of Friends of Bayreuth has offered Katharina Wagner an extra million euros to reverse a significant cut in her 2026 anniversary year plans. They have specifically demanded the restoration of Tobias Kratzer’s Tannhäuser […]
The widely respected choral director Simon Halsey has joined the Oslo Philharmonic as Choral Director and Artistic Advisor for the next five years. Halsey, whose career tracked Simon Rattle’s from Birmingham to Berlin to London, […]
Word is going round that Andrew S. Grossman has died. Grossman was one of the last surviving ex-directors of the all-powerful Columbia Artists Management Inc, not exactly jumping off the deck of the Titanic but […]
GBSR Duo, made up of two of the UK’s finest young contemporary chamber instrumentalists, George Barton, percussion and Siwan Rhys, piano, has become known for its boundary-crossing performances, combining exceptional interpretations of the existing piano-percussion repertoire […]
The cow From that wonderful museum in Amsterdam comes this quirky little video about the cow and its importance in Dutch painting. Friso Lammertse, curator of 17th Century Dutch paintings at the Rijksmuseum, tells […]
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra has named João Abreu from Portugal as its principal trombone. He has held that position at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf for the past seven years. The low brass section at BRSO […]
The London Symphony Orchestra has made it known that its veteran leader Carmine Lauri has played his last concert and is returning to his native Malta after nearly three decades. Lauri first played in the […]
On Site Opera has just announced shut down. The decision to sunset was driven by an increasingly challenging environment in funding for the arts combined with rising operational costs. These factors have made it significantly […]
City Opera believers have shown more fiather in the resurrection than most Christians, always to be disappointed. Here is the latest PR spin: New York City Opera has an 80-year legacy of bringing affordable, innovative […]
Message just received: It is with great regret that due to health reasons, Kirill Petrenko has to cancel the concerts from 29 to 31 January 2025. The Berliner Philharmoniker and Frank Peter Zimmermann are very […]
