The Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo has upgraded Riccardo Frizza from music director to artistic director. Frizza, 53, has served the festival as music director for the past eight years. Go figure. He says: ‘It […]
The incoming New York Philharmonic conductor was invited to contribute a ‘Turning Points’ article to the local newspaper. Probably ghosted, and ever so slightly pretentious. He begins: Lately I have been thinking about the relationship […]
Bavarian Radio has a rare interview with the shy and retiring German composer Max Richter, first choice for all classical stations with a ‘relaxing’ stream. Richter, 58, is from the Pied Piper’s town of Hamelin. […]
After a longer than expected absence for two leg surgeries, Christian Thielemann is back rehearsing at the Vienna State Opera. The work is a lifelong favourite – Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina, about a composer who showed […]
A Christmas tale to warm the heart here. Debbie Wiseman and Alan Titchmarsh isn’t a combination that immediately springs to mind, but here it is, and a very successful one at that. Titchmarsh has a […]
The Irish virtuoso, who turns 85 on December 8, has put up three golden flutes for sale at prices from £51,000 to £120,000 ($65-153,000). Sir James Galway, a Belfast lad who was principal flute of […]
The Finnish phenom Tarmo Peltokoski is in Israel this week, conducting the Philharmonic in works they’d never have put together otherwise. That would be Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus, the Vasks violin concerto and, after the interval, […]
This is the Center’s current season, released today. Who is the audience? NEW YORK, NY (December 4, 2024) – Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) today announced additional Free and Choose-What-You-Pay programming throughout […]
From the mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti: I’m so happy to announce my debut at the @salzburgerfestspiele this summer, with the part of Jocasta in Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky), under the lead of my favorite conductor @lorenzoviotti, together with the @viennaphilharmonic and @wienersingverein !!! I started […]
Friends are mourning the passing of Brigitte Marger (Mondoloni), one of the kindest yet most effective members of the Boulez circle in Paris. Brigitte was director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and later of the Cité […]
