The pianos that survived Hiroshima
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 […]
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Girls add grace to Evensong at York Minster
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 […]
Get involved to make EU protect instruments on airlines
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 […]
Sellars in Salzburg: ‘Spectacularly moving’
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 […]
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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 […]
Peter Gelb: I’ll stage a Ukraine opera at the Met
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 […]
All-consuming: Kateřina Kněžíková’s account of the title role lights up Damiano Michieletto’s overly conceptual production of Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová at Glyndebourne
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: […]
German wins Karajan award
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 […]
1,400 Israeli artists call for immediate end to war
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 […]
Transfer news: Baltimore Symphony recruits two principals and a viola
Ha Young Jung (pic), principal bass at the New Jersey Symphony, is taking up the same position in Baltimore. Abigail Kent is the new principal harp. Andrew Eng, recently with the National Symphony in DC, […]
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