Yesterday was the deadline for applying for voluntary redundancies at Welsh National Opera. From today, cost-cutting officials will be issuing redundancy notices with the aim of reducing a once-proud chorus to a payroll of twenty. […]
NCEM Young Composers Award 2024 winners Ryan Collins and Charlotte Robertson with Ex Corde Each year Young Composers Award is presented by the National Centre for Early Music in association with BBC Radio 3 and […]
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel – Zahid Siddiqui (Witch) – Royal Academy Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel; Clover Kayne, Erin O’Rourke, Alex Bower-Brown, Zixin Tang, Zahid Siddiqui, director: Jack Furness, conductor: Johann Stuckenbruck, […]
The Berkeley Symphony has announced that Joseph Young will leave next summer after six years as music director. Young, 42, is also artistic director at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Berkeley was his first orchestra. […]
Morley College, an adult education institute that once gave employment to German-Jewish refugees, has stepped in to ban a concert of pro-Palestine new music with such titles as ‘Salute to the Resistance’ and ‘Blood United […]
The Liceu in Barcelona has tweeted news of the death of soprano Enriqueta Tarrés, one of the frontline singers of her time. After making her debut at the Liceu aged 23, she joined the Basel […]
Agnes Baltsa, who turned 80 this week,was snapoped up by Karajan for Vienna and Salzburg at the age of 25. She became the foremost Carmen of her time, but she learned very quickly to manage […]
Daniel Kidane (Photo: Kaupo Kikkas) Wigmore Hall is devoting Saturday 30 November 2024 to composer Daniel Kildane. Born in Britain of Russian and Eritrean parentage, Kildane was talented young and sang in the children’s chorus […]
The Georgian-Israeli composer Josef Bardanashili is a major contemporary compose whose Light to my Path so imposed at the Azrieli Gala Concert in Montréal recemtly, and whose vocal works featured in this post. During an […]
We are all mesmerised by the return of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light to our TV screens, even though we know how it ends! Part of the atmosphere of the series is created […]
