The Chinese violinist Luo Chaowen, 23, won first prize at South Korea’s Isangyun Competition last night, performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto. He’s studying at the Beijing central conservatory. Saxophonist Jason Xu, 19, a Chinese-Canadian student at the […]
We hear that chorus rehearsals at the Metropolitan Opera were stopped yesterday after singers came to work and found asbestos crews ripping out suspected asbestos. Rigoletto went ahead as planned last night but chaos and […]
Next year markss the centenary of the ultra-modernist’s birth and E-P Salonen is putting on a show in LA, Here’s the prog: Thursday, May 8, at 8:00 PM Saturday, May 10, at 8:00 PM Sunday, […]
The special award of Bavaria’s culture prizes for 2024 was bestowed today on the Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, the first woman to conduct an opera at the Bayreuth Festival. ‘Oksana Lyniv is a top-class conductor, […]
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There is a public outcry in Finland after a junior school in Uusima cancelled a concert of Handel’s Messiah by the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and the Helsinki Chamber Choir, apparently out of anxiety that its […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: I had tea once with Miklos Rozsa in a friend’s flat, around the corner from Abbey Road. It was my first encounter with a Golden Age Hollywood composer, […]
From US violinist Stefan Jackiw: Last week in a performance with my Junction Trio (@conradtao and @autocellic ) at @92ndstreety , my string broke during the climax of Shostakovich’s piano trio no. 2. I didn’t […]
Giuseppe Verdi creates a portrait of a society that tries to forget all its misery in the splendour of glittering parties. Violetta wants to break free, leave her past life behind and seek happiness with […]
Before the various PR flood my inbox with protests, let me specify that the two elements above are not appearing together. Simon Rattle will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra for the first time in his […]
