The death has been communicated of Christine Weidinger who, on the advice of Marilyn Horne, quit a string of roles at the Metropolitan Opera to become a company member in Stuttgart Oper and then at […]
Message from Peter Philips and the Tallis Scholars: ‘It is with great sadness that we share the news that soprano Deborah Roberts has died. Deborah performed over 1200 concerts with us between 1977 and 2012. […]
Just in from the BBC Proms: Very sadly, Sir András Schiff has broken his leg and has had to withdraw from this Prom. Rather than cancelling this concert we wanted to offer an alternative. We […]
We understand that Daniel Malampalli, Associate Director of Programming at the LA Phil, has quit to join Chad Smith as head of programming at the Boston Symphony. He’ll need to invest in a winter suit. […]
Medical update from the sickly tenor: While in Verona, I unfortunately started experiencing cold like symptoms which turned into a rather awful flu. This forced me to reschedule my performance in Bratislava and cancel my […]
If You Died, Who Would You Choose To Haunt? Manchester-based composer and songwriter Anna Appleby‘s work includes a chamber opera-ballet Citizens of Nowhere in 2016/17, an opera, Drought in 2022, for the BBC Philharmonic and […]
The BBC Symphony Orchestra has renewed the contract of chief conductor Sakari Oramo by five more years. He has been in charge since 2013. He will conduct the Last Night of the Proms again this […]
Orlande de Lassus and the Bavarian court musicians, circa 1563-70 by Hans Mielich (1516-1573) Masters of Imitation: Lassus, Casulana, Josquin, Châtelet, Bob Chilcott; The Sixteen, Harry Christophers; Old Royal Naval College Chapel, GreenwichReviewed 10 September […]
We have obtained confirmation that principal flute Sebastian Jacot will leave the orchestra in November, after failing to ‘pass the probation period.’ An audition for his successor will be held in March. The section also […]