On the anniversary of the first nuclear-bomb attack on August 6, 1945, spare a moment for the human tragedy that was meant to bring the Second World War to an end. The immediate death toll […]
A piano tuner in the city hit 80 years ago by an atomic bomb has dedicated much of his life to restoring keyboards that somehow survived the devastation. Yagawa Mitsunori, 73, has so far brought […]
A procession of Roden Girl Choristers closed the service, accompanied by an organ improvisation by the Dutch organist Sietze de Vries. Perfect peace. The post Girls add grace to Evensong at York Minster appeared first […]
The London-based double-bassist Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli (pictured) is gathering signatures for a petitition to pressure the European Parliament to oblige airlines to protect instruments from mishandling by airlines. The petition, which has already attracted several […]
From our roving critic Susan Hall: The American director Peter Sellars, a fixture at the Salzburg Festival, arrived this year with a juxtaposition of works by Anton Schoenberg (Erwartung) and Gustav Mahler (Der Abschied from […]
%20(c)%20Russell%20Duncan.jpeg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Puccini's final version of La Rondine, a recital from Simon Boccanegra and Donizetti Songs: Opera Rara's 2025/26 season")
Ermonela Jaho & Carlo Rizzi recording Donizetti for Opera Rara (Photo: Russell Duncan) By and large, Puccini’s operas do not have complex musicological issues surrounding them. He made substantial revisions to Madama Butterfly, but the […]
The Met’s general manager informs BR-Klassik that he has commissioned a new opera titled ‘The Mothers of Kherson’. He adds: ‘For a long time, no one thought this could happen. Everyone believed it was just […]
Janáček: Káťa Kabanová – Kateřina Kněžíková – Glyndeburne (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) Janáček: Káťa Kabanová; Kateřina Kněžíková, Nicky Spence, Rachael Wilson, Sam Furness, Susan Bickley, John Tomlinson, director: Damiano Michieletto/Eleanora Gravagnola, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: […]
The young German conductor Christian Blex has been awarded the coveted Karajan prize at the Salzburg festival. Blex, a former assistant to Kirill Pdetrenko at the Berlin Philharmonic, is presently assistant conductor of the Gustav […]
A large group of the coutnry’s creatives have signed an open letter to prime minister Netanyahu, calling on him to end the humanitarian disaster in Gaza without delay. They say: ‘Before our eyes, a horror […]
