The Orchestre National de France has named its next chief conductor to succeed Cristian Macelaru (who’s heading to Cincinnati). The incoming boss will be Philippe Jordan, music director of the Vienna State Opera, whose tenure […]
The Coachella Festival has released its spring 2025 highlights. It includes a ‘first-of-its-kind’ performance by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, some way down the bill behind Lady Gaga, Missy Eliott, Charli XCX and […]
More news from the valleys: The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has announced Dame Shirley Bassey as its President for the next three years. She succeeds HM King Charles who, when Prince of […]
The Divine Art Recordings Group, specialising in clerical, quirky and unexpected music, has been bought overnight by First Inversion, LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas. Stared in a Northumberland villahe church in 1992 by an enmterprising […]
The high-flying Festival at Aix-en-Provence has appointed Olivier Leymarie as Deputy General Director, understudy to Pierre Audi. Leymarie, who starts in January, is presently MD of the Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris. The post Aix adds […]
Eyebrows rose in April last year when the struggling Philharmonia Orchestra added a new name to its masthead. The venerable Sir John Eliot Gardiner was to be Principal Guest Conductor Emeritus of the Philharmonia Orchestra. […]
Habibi, Beethoven, Berlioz Javier Perianes (piano); Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal / Rafael Payare. Barbican Hall, 19.11.2024 Iman Habibi Jeder Baum spricht (2020) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15 (1795, revised 1800) Berlioz Symphonie […]
The French cellist Ophélie Gaillard, whose 1737 Goffriller was taken by housebreakers while her family were asleep at home, has been reunited with the instrument, and with two precious bows that were also taken. Three […]
Gianfranco Mariotti, who founded the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro in 1980, died yesterday at the age of 91. He was Sovrintendente of the festival for 38 seasons, stepping down in 2017. He put Pesaro […]
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. […]
