Remember New York City Opera?
It died, for lack of funds and an excess of interference by individual board members. The death last week of Mary Sharp Cronson reminded one of our readers that she was the force behind the […]
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BeethovenFest to discuss colonialism, exploitation and LGBTQ+
The Bonn festival, in October, has booked Belgium’s B’Rock Orchestra to contextualise the first symphony: The B’Rock Orchestra feels like an integral part of society and wants to contribute to a meaningful discussion. In its […]
Finn star: I’ll do Vaughan Williams in France
From an interview with Tarmo Peltokoski at the Granada Festival: ‘A personal passion of mine is the music of Vaughan Williams, the great English composer, which is not really played anywhere. So we shall be […]
Yuja Wang: Conducting is ‘like doing it with the condom off’
Never lost for an eye-catching line, the pianist concludes a dreary interview in the Telegraph with this going-home gift: I ask Wang about her future career goals and she suggests she’d like to do more […]
Beethoven abused at Paris Olympic preview
For lack of taste and talent you would be hard pressed to find an act duller and more banal than this official state presentation by veteran pop persona Arielle Dombasle. What were they thinking? The […]
The Music of Milica Djordjević
Bavarian Radio’s series Musica Viva always seems to exude a sense of discovery, of freshness, of hope that contemporary music that matters is alive and well: we can look back, for example, to the music […]
Sudden death of French gadfly
The erudite critic and provocateur Benoît Duteurtre, presenter of Astonish Me, Benoit on France Musique died at his rural holiday home of a heart attack this week, aged 64. An early groupie of Boulez, Stockhausen […]
Ruth Leon’s Pocket Theatre Reviews
NEXT TO NORMAL – Wyndham’s Theatre When this landmark musical debuted on Broadway in 2010, it won three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama – one of only ten musicals in history to receive this prestigious honour. It […]
Mourning for Scots baritone
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has announced the death of baritone Alan Watt, a valued member of the teaching staff from 1995 to 2019. Born in Aberdeen, Watt sang leading roles with British companies performed […]
Returning to Northern Ireland Opera for his third role, British-Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk talks about his continuing exploration of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Yuriy Yurchuk Baritone Yuriy Yurchuk sings the title role in Northern Ireland Opera‘s new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin which opens on 14 September 2024 at the Grand Opera House, Belfast, directed by Cameron Menzies […]
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