Job spot: Banff seeks opera boss
Joel Ivany has stepped down after 12 years as artistic director of opera at the Banff Centre. If you enjoy mountains and remoteness, this could be one for you. More here. pictured: Handmaid’s Tale at […]
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Trump offers $50m reward for head of El Sistema
The United States has doubled the price it is offering for the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, president of the state of Venezuela and controller of the el Sistema music propaganda unit. Maduro funds el Sistema […]
Royal Opera chief takes the knee for Palestine intervention
Oliver Mears, director of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, has emailed an explanation to staff as to why he attemped to remove a Palestine flag from one of the extras during curtain-calls for Il […]
Try a Resurrection the Handel way
Handel was in Rome in 1708 when he received a commission for a large sacred oratorio for Easter from Marquis Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, his patron at the time. La resurrezione was performed for the first time […]
Itinéraire Baroque 2: Handel and his Contemporaries
Itinéraire Baroque en Périgord 2025 (2): La Roche Baroque (1): Handel and his Contemporaries La Risonanza. 12 noon, Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 01.08.2025 Michel Correte Organ Concerto in F, Op. 25/6. Handel […]
Wonderful Tchaikovsky Suites from an unexpected source
It’s interesting to see a resurgence in Tchaikovsky’s relatively neglected Orchestral Suites in a smattering of recent new recordings. Newcomer Stanislav Kochanovsky recorded the Third with the NDR Radio Philharmonic for his debut on harmonia mundi, […]
Just in: Renee Fleming lashes out at ‘criminal’ US voice programs
In a lecture at the Voice Foundation, the diva pulled no punches. Here’s a sample: Given the climate right now for opera and classical music performance—which is what I know—I think there are far too […]
The Met names an American Wotan for its upcoming Ring
Met general manager Peter Gelb has told the Associated Press that Ryan Speedo Green, presently singing Die Walküre for the first time at Santa Fe, has been signed up to sing the central role of […]
San Francisco to frisk concertgoers for guns
Janos Gereben reports on SF Classical Voice: The San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center (WMPAC), the organization that runs the theaters and concert halls in San Francisco’s Civic Center, will add a new […]
National Theatre dismisses 70% of stage staff
The pinnacle of UK theatre is reducing is stage team from 24 to just seven as a cost-efficiency measure. There has been no outcry in national media and no threat of union action. It’s just […]
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