The Dutch orchestra has just released named of its 14 Academy members for the coming season. All are EU citizens, bar one American: Lena Aigner (Austria): violin Katharina Von Behren (Germany): violin Pauline Herold (Germany): […]
Look Again: European Paintings—Rethinking Spain & The Spanish Americas One thing I’m definitely going to do when I get home to New York next week is to visit the newly renovated and reinstalled European Paintings […]
We hear the orchestra will ppresent its next CEO before the month is out. The key factor for the seach committee has been to recruit someone who has the trust of incoming director Gustavo Dudamel. […]
The Harlequin agency in Cardiff which has looked after the baritone Sir Bryn Terfel from the start of his career has agreed a merger with agency Keynote, a London-based artist management company. Harlequin was started […]
The prime minister has offered a tribute to the contest, presently under way. He writes: The Leeds combines two of my greatest loves: the city that absolutely formed me when I came here as a student; […]
The death has been communicated of Christine Weidinger who, on the advice of Marilyn Horne, quit a string of roles at the Metropolitan Opera to become a company member in Stuttgart Oper and then at […]
Message from Peter Philips and the Tallis Scholars: ‘It is with great sadness that we share the news that soprano Deborah Roberts has died. Deborah performed over 1200 concerts with us between 1977 and 2012. […]
Just in from the BBC Proms: Very sadly, Sir András Schiff has broken his leg and has had to withdraw from this Prom. Rather than cancelling this concert we wanted to offer an alternative. We […]
We understand that Daniel Malampalli, Associate Director of Programming at the LA Phil, has quit to join Chad Smith as head of programming at the Boston Symphony. He’ll need to invest in a winter suit. […]
Medical update from the sickly tenor: While in Verona, I unfortunately started experiencing cold like symptoms which turned into a rather awful flu. This forced me to reschedule my performance in Bratislava and cancel my […]
