The Staatskapelle Dresden (est. 1548) has appointed Mariano Esteban Barco as its principal oboe. Mariano, 30, is from Calanda in the region of Aragón. He has been principal oboe for the ast three years with […]
On March 24, 2015, we reported the crash of a Germanwings flight in which two opera singers – Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak – lost their lives. They were among 150 victims of the disaster, […]
The music director of the Cleveland Orchestra has written a commentary on recent events for the Backstage Classical site. In it, the Austrian conductor spoke out strongly against artist boycotts, arguing that ‘culture must remain […]
The Swiss composer Pierre Mariétan died yesterday in his 90th year. A former associate of Boulez and Stockhausen, he leaves 300 instrumental, orchestral, vocal and electro-acoustic works. His pièce de résistance is Paysmusique (1991), which […]
The following message has just gone out from the sinking South Bank Centre: Important update: Royal Festival Hall closure on Mondays From Monday 7 April the Royal Festival Hall, including the Members Lounge, will be […]
Announcement from the Black Orchestral Network: We congratulate our friend Dana Kelley who recently won the position of Associate Principal violist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC. Learn more about Dana: Violist Dana […]
Beckett Briefs Click here for tickets Don’t miss this. For this week only, until March 30th, the Irish Rep is streaming their critically acclaimed production of Beckett Briefs. When this show premiered live at the […]
Message from the maestro after Maria Valverde’s debut as a director at the Malaga Film Festival: Some beautiful memories from the premiere of El Canto de las Manos at the Málaga Film Festival, a film […]
The Grawemeyer-winning composer Olga Neuwirth is working on a new opera with Nobel Prize literature winner Elfriede Jelinek. Titled ‘Monster’s Paradise’ it features an incompetent, brutal king, easily recognised in today’s political pantheon. The style […]
Tavish Forsyth, a program director at the Kennedy Center’s Opera Institute, has been fired after posting a naked video of himself on Youtube and X, deriding the Center’s new president. ‘America had quit me and […]
