Prime Minister Bart De Wever has taken the unusual step of speaking out against an arts festival for making a political decision to ban the Israeli conductor Lahav Shani with the Munich Philharmonic orchestra. The […]
The Russian soprano’s reapparance last night – in a cautious new production of Tosca – was greeted by a few dozen pro-Ukraine demonstrators outside the house. This being England, they conducted polite conversations with those […]
After a concert of Gabrieli, Stravinsky and Brahms’ second symphony, the conductor Ilan Volkov read out a short personal message to the audience. Thank you all for sharing this amazing music together. It’s a real […]
On 10 October 2025, World Mental Health Day, some of London’s brightest queer artists will perform at St Giles Cripplegate to shine a spotlight on suicide and drug-related death crisis in the LGBTQ+ community in a charity concert […]
Few operas have enjoyed such an enviable fate as Gounod’s Faust. Well received at its premiere, followed by international success, which still makes it the most performed French opera in the world today, just behind Carmen. But […]
The Halle Orchestra in Manchester has recruited the accomplished Rachel Helleur-Simcock as Leader of the Cello Section. A former principal cello of Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Rachel has also been a member of the Berlin Philharmonic […]
The Dutch orchestra, where Lahav Shani is chief conductor until next year, has issueda very strong statement against the Flanders Festival ban on his performance with the Munich Philharmonic. Here’s the unequivocal Rotterdam text: Rob […]
Message received: Following the cancellation by the Flanders Festival of the Munich Philharmonic’s scheduled concert in Belgium, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and its General Director, Baptiste Charroing, confirm that the concert with the orchestra in […]
Mannes School of Music is planning a US premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Silent Serenade. Written in the late 1940s when Korngold was at the peak of his Hollywood success, it failed to make […]
This is a message from Jan van den Borre, of the Musica Antiqua Festival in Brugge, to members of the Dutch Culture Council. Van den Borre is the incoming director of the Flanders Festival. Things […]
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