Rejkjavik – Hampstead Theatre The first half of Rejkjavik doesn’t happen in Rejkjavik at all but in Hull. This is playwright Richard Bean’s home town and he is deeply committed to its history as the home port of […]
Barcelona – Duke of York’s theatre I’ve been in two very different cities this week – Barcelona and Rejkjavik. In neither case did I see anything of the town itself. In Barcelona I saw the […]
message received: The Hannover University of Music, Theater and Media has appointed Dr. Maria Behrendt as the new head of the research center for Music and Gender (fmg). Effective October 2024 she has also taken […]
The jazz expert and festival director Richard Williams is one of the most perceptive and humane observers of the great musicians of our times. If you don’t know his writings, start right here. Richard has […]
The dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison died yesterday in a Manhattan hospital. A titanic figure, rising to five-foot-ten, she commanded the stage until Mikhail Baryshnikov arrived, at which point they arrested global attention as the […]
The Greek city is remembering Yiannis Boutaris, winemaker and clean-handed politician, who died yesterday at the age of 82. As mayor of Salonika from 2011 to 2019, Boutaris pledged to build the city’s first memorial […]
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, […]
