press release: Royal College of Music student, Robyn Anderson has won a place on the Berlin Philharmonic’s highly competitive Karajan Academy programme… This exceptional opportunity places Robyn among a select few musicians accepted each year, gaining experience in rehearsals and concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic as well as individual lesson […]
The death has been announced, aged 94, of the venerable Burton Fine, principal viola for 29 years of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He started out as a research chemist with the space agency NASA. […]
From the French magazine le canard enchainé, under the strapline ‘Metoo Classical music’: Le flûtiste et chef d’orchestre est connu dans le milieu de la musique baroque pour son insistance à vouloir masser les pieds […]
From the general manager’s self-admiring Sunday sermon in the pushover NY Times: … I arrived at the Met in 2006 with plans to re-energize its audience engagement through new productions of the classics and new […]
The press service of the Mariinsky Theater has announced the death of its principal dancer Vladimir Shklyarov. ‘This is a huge loss for the entire Mariinsky Theatre team. Our condolences to the artist’s family, loved […]
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, My 2nd and 3rd year of college was during Covid. I play a wind instrument. It was very tough to improve during those years, and even after that I […]
Alastain Macaulay reviews Donizetti’s time-shifted Elixir of Love at English National Opera: Harry Fehr’s English National Opera adorable production of Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” (“L’Elisir d’Amore”, 1832) doesn’t just translate this idyllic rural comedy […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Ethel Smyth was a middle-class butch lesbian from an English military family who went to jail for the Suffragette cause and was seen conducting fellow-inmates at Holloway Prison […]
In 1964, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times called Stanley Kubrick’s movie Dr Strangelove, “the most shattering sick joke I’ve ever come across”. The almost slavishly admiring stage production currently at the Noel Coward Theatre lives […]
The Doric String Quartet, on the road since 1998, has replaced founder-vioinist Alex Redington and violist Hélène Clément with the merest whisper of a social media post. They say: We are thrilled to welcome violinist […]
