From the Doyle sale catalogue: NEW YORK, NY — Following the success of his 1948 debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, and the publication of his 1949 first collection of short stories, A Tree of […]
Everybody’s hottest Carmen of 2024, the Tunisian-Canadian Rihab Chaieb has just switched to London-based Intermusica. She was formerly with TACT for just over a year. Photo by Richard Hubert Smith/Glyndebourne The post Biz news: Inter […]
Bavarian Radio has released audio of Lise Davidsen singing the second act of Tristan und Isolde for the first time. Stuart Skelton is Tristan. Simon Rattle conducts. The sound is phenomenal. The post Step forward […]
Yesterday morning, before daybreak, the BBC launched Radio 3 Unwind, a 24/7 stream of calming classical music. It aims ‘to enhance wellbeing and help listeners escape the pressures of daily life’. The morning show, presented […]
Variety reports a gift of $2 million to the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra by House of Cards composer Jeff Beal (pictured) and his soprano wife Joan. The money is designated for new concert works by […]
Deborah Borda, acting CEO, confirmed today that principal oboe Liang Wang (pictured) and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey have been fired irrevocably over renewed allegations of historic sexual aggression. The pair were first dismissed in […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Specializing in the performance of Wagner operas, the London Opera Company forges ahead in a concert performance of Siegfried at Sinfonia Smith Square, London.")
Jean de Reszke as Siegfried (c. 1896) Wagner: Siegfried; Colin Judson, Brad Cooper, Simon Thorpe, Stephan Loges, Thomas D Hopkinson, Louise Fuller, Harriet Williams, Cara McHardy, conductor: Peter Selwyn; London Opera Company at Sinfonia Smith […]
Audiences can be there from the beginning of the “Reinhardt Era” as Ruth Reinhardt leads the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra in her first concert as Music Director Designate this weekend. She first conducted the orchestra […]
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The multi-ethnic British orchestras, which is tightening its internal procedures, has added seven new members to its board of three. They include a BBC finance director and a Labour Party activist (pic) who formerly advised […]
