This week’s unexpected Billboard chart-topper is a studio retake of ‘Mea Culpa/ca ira’ from the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. It features heavy metal band Gojira and mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti. Missing from the credits on the […]
Dear Alma, My teacher made a public display of me in studio class today and I froze with nervousness. He was not happy with my intonation, and and instead of phrasing it in a constructive […]
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Season of Joy opened last night with Beethoven’s ninth to a packed house. A correspondent writes: ‘The near-capacity audience was bolstered by an offer of tickets for a pound […]
This weekend’s season opening concerts of Verdi’s Requiem have been called off after chorus members called a three-day walkout. Ticket holders for last night’s concerts were given two hours notice. Some were already on their […]
The interim management of the NY Philharmonic has offered the musicians a 30 percent pay raise, taking the basic minimum wage in the stringa to $205,000 a year. Players in other sections automatically earn more. […]
Caravaggio at the National Gallery Letizia Treves, then Curator of Later Italian, Spanish, and French 17th-century Paintings at the National Gallery, guides us through the tumultuous life of Caravaggio. Caravaggio was a bad boy, the […]
Created by David Bintley for the National Ballet of Japan in 2008, this production has been a favourite with Japanese audiences (this is the fourth revival), while also winning a place in the repertoire of […]
Music? You can’t destroy that … (Anita Lasker-Wallfisch) Christian Berger’s film, Musik unterm Hakenkreutz, a fascinating and disturbing documentary in equal parts, is dominated by the figure of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1923), who endured imprisonment […]
It’s curtains for the Vle of Glamorgan Festival which has been presenting new works each years since 1969. Composer Huw Watkins says on its website: ‘This wonderful festival has championed an enormous range of composers […]
The Royal Opera informs us that Eva-Maria Westbroek has withdrawn from all performances of Festen ‘due to personal reasons’. The new opera by Mark Anthony Turnage, based on the Danish cult film, does not premiere […]
