From a Barrons interview with Weston Sprott, dean and director of the Preparatory Division at the Juilliard School, and trombonist in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. I balance full-time teaching at Juilliard and full-time performing with […]
Austrian media are circulating a picture of the Russian soprano in a wedding dress, holding an assault weapon, taken from her instagram account. The picture has been traced to Berlin Staatsoper rehearsals for an upcoming […]
From our roving reviewer, Susan Hall: The North American premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera, The Listeners, took place at Opera Philadelphia on September 25. Mazzoli is a hometown hero. Her smashing opera based on the […]
Gregory Hines Tribute to Gene Kelly This is one of my favourite dance sequences. It’s from the 1982 Kennedy Center Honors and this is my old friend the late Gregory Hines paying tribute to Gene Kelly. […]
Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) famously studied with Schoenberg (the only Spanish composer to do so). He also made his base in England for a while, so his neglect in this country seems incomprehensibe. The […]
The idea is to reflect each of the years of the first quarter of the 21st century. The works will premiere on Tom Service’s Saturday Morning programme from January 25. Anna Clyne (pic) has chosen […]
When their flight was cancelled on Monday morning, the Budapest Festival Orchestra were in despair. They were due to play that evening at the Bozar in Brussels to mark Hungary’s presidency of the Council of […]
The last we heard of the Toronto Consort, they were going bust and couldn’t finish the season. Today, they have announced countertenor Daniel Taylor as General and Artistic Director and Dame Emma Kirkby as Honorary […]
Kirill Petrenko, Christian Thielemann and Joanna Mallwitz have put their signatures to an appeal to the senate, calling on it to reverse planned budget cuts. Statements below: Joana Mallwitz, chief conductor and artistic director of […]
For the third year running, the 43 critics of Opernwelt magazine have awarded the Opera House of the Year title to…. Frankfurt. What’s more, Frankfurt Opera Choir is Choir of the Year, Lydia Steier is […]
