Freddie wows the Met
First reports from British tenor Freddie de Tommaso’s Metropolitan Opera debut last night speak of standing Os and whoops of approval. Lise Davidsen, who was singing her first Met Tosca, was applauded before she even […]
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Banking on the Berlin Phil up to 2030
When the Berlin Philharmonic visit Frankfurt, they drop into the bank. After yesterday’s limelight concert at the Alte Oper, en route to a US tour, the orchestra renewed its deals with Deutsche Bank as lead […]
By some strange piece of magic, it works: Dancing Queen from Asya Fateyeva & Lautten Compagney Berlin mixes Rameau with the songs of ABBA
Dancing Queen: Rameau meets ABBA; Asya Faeyeva, Lautten Compagney Berlin; Deustsche Harmonia MundiReviewed 12 November 2024 An unlikely marriage of saxophone, period instrument ensemble, Rameau and the songs of supergroup ABBA turns in gold in […]
Korabaroꓘ: A Fusion of West African and Baroque Music
Korabaroꓘ – Mamadou Dramé, Céline Scheen, Karim Baggili What do you get if you bring together a soprano, a guitarist who also plays the oud and a player of the African harp, a traditional instrument […]
Christmas with The Bevan Family Consort
Cozy though the next in our sequence of Christmas discs might all seem, the disc begins in timeless, profound fashion with three and a half minutes of plainchant, beautifully executed and in an appropriate church […]
Broadening the reach of opera in the South East and beyond: Barefoot Opera announces a Young Artist Tour of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor for 2025
Rossini: La cenerentola – Barefoot Opera, 2023 (Photo: Chris Parker) Tenor Anthony Flaum has just been announced as the new artistic director of Barefoot Opera, a charity based in St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex […]
Ruth Leon recommends…. Manon – Royal Ballet
Manon – Royal Ballet Click here for tickets Kenneth Macmillan’s fabulous Manon isn’t in the Royal Ballet’s performance programme for this season so I thought we should remind ourselves of what a towering achievement it […]
How musicians brought their orchestra back from bankruptcy
When Ontario’s Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony went bust in September 2023, that seemed to be it. Orchestras are not great believers in self-resurrection. But this one is. When the players of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony were told in […]
Semyon Bychkov: I played 8 years Soviet volleyball
The Russian-born conductor of the Czech Philharmonic tells David Krauss in Speaking Soundly that he learned to manage pre-concert tension by playing volleyball from age 10 to 18 with Dynamo Leningrad. ‘My piano teacher was […]
President calls time on troubled US chamber orchestra
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s president and managing director Jon Limbacher has given notice he will retire a year from now. Limbacher, 62, will have led the group for nine years. Six months ago, Kyu-Young […]
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