The Italian news agency Ansa has just reported that the Royal Palace of Caserta has cancelled the symphony concert conducted by Valery Gergiev that was scheduled for July 27th. It appears the site’s directorate was […]
“CBS News Sunday Morning” has allocated its feelgood slot to the US-born Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt, still working at 98. ‘It’s like intense sex,’ he says, ‘an extremely close relation’. Watch. The post […]
The esteeemed pianist is playing a new piece tomorrow in Barcelona by a Juilliard-trained Catalan composer, Marc Migó. Migó is a John Corigliano student whose work has been performed in Amsterdam and Berlin. He was […]
Aside from the sideshow of the Palestine flag-waver, a leading baritone in the Trovatore cast has lashed out on his Facebook page against the artistic management of the company, particularly at conductor Carlo Rizzi and […]
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor – Tabitha Reynolds (ghost), Jennifer France – Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Jennifer France, José de Eça, Morgan Pearse, director: Cecilia Stinton, conductor: Michael Papadopoulos, City […]
A conversation I filmed with the conductor in Zurich, a dozen years ago. A lovely man, lacking in pomposity and self-regard. Enjoy. The post Roger Norrington: I kiss the musicians, then I kick off my […]
The cast member who brandished a Palestine flag at last night’s curtain call for Il trovatore is reported to be Daniel Perry, a self-styled ‘queer dance artist, choreographer/movement director, and DJ’. He is seen on […]
It appears that a member of the cast of Il Trovatore made a pro-Palestine protest during curtain calls for Verdi’s Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House last night. Staff attempts to remove the flag […]
The first conductor at the 2025 festival this week will be Daniele Gatti, rejected as chief conductor at La Scala Milan in favour of Myung Whun Chung. He conducts a new production by Matthias Davids […]
Following on from our coverage of the Britten Pears 2025/26 season yesterday, here are details of this year’s Edinburgh Festival: The Edinburgh International Festival opens on 1 August and features 1700 artists from 42 countries […]
