From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I have been conducting a wonderful medium-sized opera company in a solid, comfortable city for over twenty years. As you are most likely aware, opera has been suffering lately, […]
This is an adaptation of a wildly successful young adult novel by British writer Malorie Blackman. It has been adapted for the stage by Dominic Cooke. Set in a segregated violent post-21st-century England, it is a love story […]
We have learned of the death of the French mezzo-soprano Béatrice Uria-Monzon, one of the great Carmens of her day. She owned the role in Paris throughout the 1990s and recorded it with Alain Lombard. […]
Highlights include: Britten Weekend marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz Aurora Orchestra performs Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony from memory and is joined by Chloë Hanslip for Prokofiev’s […]
Madrid embraces the wayward sailor. The post Weekend watch: The Real Billy Budd appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Murdock-Whitney House, Winchendon History & Cultural Centre Andrew Arceci is an American viola da gamba, violone, and bass player who studied at the Peabody Conservatory, The Juilliard School, and at Oxford. His UK performances […]
Totally unexpected. In 1971, John Rutter published Fancies, a set of six short pieces for choir and chamber orchestra, on texts taken from Elizabethan poets. Rutter explained, “The ‘fancies’ are the fleeting ideas, dreams and […]
In the summer of 1939 the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu wrote a field mass for Czech soldiers who were volunterring to fight for France. It’s a fabulous piece, very rarely heard. The post A Martinu […]
Joseph Horowitz has written an 11,000-word essay on Harry Burleigh, the black student who guided Antnin Dvorak down the byways of American music. He made a significant contribution to the 9th symphony, ‘From the New […]
Sarah Dayan is stepping down as first violin of Quatuor Vice, which she co-founded in 2004. She’ll be devoting more time to teaching quartet studies at the Paris Conservatoire. Her successor is Hélène Maréchaux (pic). […]
