The atmosphere in the Serb capital Belgrade just turned uglier. Early this month, a car drove into a group of Belgrade Philharmonic musicians who were protesting at Government indifference towards victims of a railway disaster. […]
Message from the Vienna-based Russian soprano: “I am regrettably obliged to withdraw from my January performances in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Wiener Staatsoper, which would have marked my role debut. Ill health this month […]
The Chicago singer Ian Fisher, an alumnus of Saint Thomas Choir School, has published an excoriating article on the abandonment of the music heritage in the Episcopal church. Here’s the beginning: It is hardly a […]
A bad year for Winchester Cathedral just got a whole lot sadder. William Kendall, legendary tenor lay clerk at Winchester and one of the finest church tenors in the world, passed away on Boxing Day. […]
We’re hearing that the Vienna State Opera has replaced Anna Netrebko in all January performances of Ariadne auf Naxos. No reason has yet been given. More details when available. The post Breaking: Vienna replaces Netrebko […]
Janine Jansen, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky – Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) Baroque music featured highly this year, Lawrence Cummings and the AAM used just eight singers for their moving version […]
Britten: Death in Venice – Antony César (Tadzio), Frederico Saggese (Jaschiu) – Welsh National Opera (Photo Johann Persson) It was one of those evenings about which you can say ‘I was there’, Wagner’s Die Walküre […]
The British actor and singer Olivia Hussey – co-star of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – died this weekend, her family have announced. View this post on Instagram A […]
In the last of the present Lebrecht Interviews on BBC Radio 3, I asked Itzhak Perlman for his thoughts on the present situation in Israel, where he was born and grew up. Itzhak gave a […]
We have received late notification of the death in November of the sound engineer Michael Brammann, winner of two Grammy awards though not – as so often happens – necessarily for his best work, Michael, […]
