The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Season of Joy opened last night with Beethoven’s ninth to a packed house. A correspondent writes: ‘The near-capacity audience was bolstered by an offer of tickets for a pound […]
This weekend’s season opening concerts of Verdi’s Requiem have been called off after chorus members called a three-day walkout. Ticket holders for last night’s concerts were given two hours notice. Some were already on their […]
The interim management of the NY Philharmonic has offered the musicians a 30 percent pay raise, taking the basic minimum wage in the stringa to $205,000 a year. Players in other sections automatically earn more. […]
Caravaggio at the National Gallery Letizia Treves, then Curator of Later Italian, Spanish, and French 17th-century Paintings at the National Gallery, guides us through the tumultuous life of Caravaggio. Caravaggio was a bad boy, the […]
Created by David Bintley for the National Ballet of Japan in 2008, this production has been a favourite with Japanese audiences (this is the fourth revival), while also winning a place in the repertoire of […]
It’s curtains for the Vle of Glamorgan Festival which has been presenting new works each years since 1969. Composer Huw Watkins says on its website: ‘This wonderful festival has championed an enormous range of composers […]
The Royal Opera informs us that Eva-Maria Westbroek has withdrawn from all performances of Festen ‘due to personal reasons’. The new opera by Mark Anthony Turnage, based on the Danish cult film, does not premiere […]
Message from José Miguel Pérez-Sierra: I am happy to be able to share with you my appointment as Musical and Artistic Director of the Royal Opera Festival in Krakow. In addition to the close collaboration […]
Today, Northern Ballet is performing Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon without its orchestra. Two of the nation’s core arts institutions have been stripped bare by Arts Council England. This is […]
The Czech Philharmonic has lost its music director for the opening of the season while he undergoes back surgery. The first three concerts will be conducted by Charles Dutoit. Bychkov, 71, will be incapacitated for […]
