The Iran-born soprano and teacher Haleh Abghari, renowned for New York performances of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King’, has been found stabbed to death in her Colorado Springs apartment. Police are […]
The Colburn School in Los Angeles, host to Esa-Pekka Salonen’s conducting Fellowship, has received a huge $16.6 million donation from an Illinois-based foundation. Salonen said: ‘I am deeply grateful to The Negaunee Foundation for supporting […]
The soprano Elsa Charleston, renowned for her commitment to new works, has died in her hometown. After a career in chamber music as a mezzo, Elsa hit the high register as she hit 40, touring […]
The Italian soprano Celestina Casapietra died this week in her homeland. After early successes in Milan she married the DDR conductor Herbert Kegel and became half of the regime’s operatic glamour couple. In Berlin, she […]
Two dozen of the world’s leaing musicians have published a letter of admiration for the pianist Pavel Kushnir, who was arrested for posting an anti-Putin video and was allowed to die of hunger in jail. […]
In a year of generational transition with Jasper Parrott stepping back at HP and Barrett Wisman fading out at IMG,one of Germany’s older family firms is also moving on. Cornelia Schmid is giving up executive […]
The Elbphilharmonie concerthall tells us that its inaugural Creator in Residence Nahre Sol amassed 13.5 million views for her videos of the course of a year. Sounds promising. Here’s her take on Mahler’s Adagietto. To […]
Friends are reporting the death of Harold Meltzer, a prolific composer who taught at Syracuse University. Meltzer suffered a stroke five years ago and was left severely disabled. His works have been recorded on Albany, […]
The Houston Symphony today upgraded its Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth S. Condic to Interim Executive Director. The move takes effect in October when John Mangum leaves to run the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The post […]
The flamboyant Richard LLugner who drew tabloid attention to the fusty Vienna Opera Ball by paying millions to Kardashian-type celebs to turn out as his date, has pranced his final waltz. A construction billionaire, Lugner […]
