Power couple leave US festival
The California summer festival Menlo@music is to lose its founding leadership. David Finckel and Wu Han have let it be known they will retire after the 2026 festival, having given quarter of a century to […]
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Modern resonances & musical style: Richard Farnes conducts Verdi’s La traviata at the Grange Festival with Samantha Clarke & Nico Darmanin
Verdi: La Traviata – Samantha Clarke – The Grange Festival (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) Verdi: La traviata; Samantha Clarke, Nico Darmanin, Dario Solari, Annie Reilly, director: Maxine Braham, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Richard Farnes; The […]
Stuttgart Opera: How we lost our beloved Beate
Artistic Director Viktor Schoner of Stuttgart State Opera has clarified the tragic circumstances of the death of a beloved soprano: Beate Ritter was a member of the Stuttgart State Opera ensemble from 2018 to 2024…. […]
Curtis raises $255 million to keep tuition free
The Curtis Institute has issued fundraising figures for an 11-year campaign to maintain fee-free tuition. A total $255 million has been raised, doubling the existing endowment. Top gift was $55 million from Nina Baroness von […]
Philharmonia player has 300 year-old violin stolen in a pub
A member of the Philharmonia Orchestra called in the police after having a Florentine violin, dated 1740, stolen from The Marquess Tavern on Canonbury Street, Islington. The theft took place in February 18 but has […]
Toronto Symphony lets amateur conduct Mahler’s Resurrection
A wealthy businessman has hired the Toronto Symphony and the Amadeus Chorus for a public performance of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony on Wednesday at Roy Thomson Hall. Musicians are said to be uneasy but none will […]
Conductor wins unfair dismissal payout
One of the world’s less transparent orchestras, the Malta Philharmonic has been ordered to pay its former chief conductor Brian Schembri the amount of 168,000 Euros for breach of contract. Schembri was fired in 2017 […]
ENO’s new music director takes second job in New Zealand
The game of smoke and mirrors that is English National Opera took an absurd turn this morning when the company’s incoming music director was hired by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in the same post. […]
Sudden death of well-known coloratura
The death has been made known of Beate Ritter, a popular member of the Vienna Volksoper who moved on to the Stuttgart state opera, where she sange her last performance in April. Beate also had […]
The coolest of US composers
Two pics of Lenny, one in Hollywood, the other in Eilat, Israel. l-r: Alexis Weisenberg, Jennie Tourel, Lenny photo: Benno Rothenberg/Photographs collection in the National Library of Israel/Meitar Collection The post The coolest of US […]
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