The Salzburg Festival is putting on performances of a prophetic 1924 film, predicting the upsurge of murderous Viennese antisemitism. The film has been furnished with a musical score by the Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, co-commissioned […]
The Glenn Gould Foundation is to award its 14th annual Glenn Gould Prize to the conductor Gustavo Dudamel at Carnegie Hall on August 2. According to the press release: ‘the presentation coincides with Carnegie Hall’s […]
For the first time this decade, the Bayreuth Festival has sold 100 percent of its tickets. Festival spokesman Hubertus Herrmann told the German Press Agency that there had been a few seats left for Parsifal […]
Two members of the audience collapsed in the first half of last night’s BBC Prom concert. The air-conditioning at the Royal Albert Hall was on full-blast but the atmosphere in the pit was choking. And […]
The Russian state agency Tass reports that Anna Netrebko will star in a new Tosca production in Rome on January 14. The date and place are freighted with significance. Tosca received its premiere on January […]
Roving critic Susan Hall has been to see Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète at Bard College, its first US staging in almost half a century. Worth the wait? by Susan Hall Leon Botstein regularly produces musical works […]
A letter from the international pianist Gabriela Montero: Today, the Maduro criminal regime tries to claim yet another stolen election in my homeland of Venezuela, despite overwhelming evidence that they lost by large margins. They […]
We have received a statement claiming to represent 123 musicians of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras. It reads: We, musicians of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras (MCO) are deeply saddened to learn that our founder […]
After a nine-year hiatus, I am returning to Radio 3 this Saturday to present the first of a new series of Lebrecht Interviews with leading figures in the music world. My first subject is Michael […]
I find it rather uplifting that, in a global market, a great composer can be revered in one section of the world and totally ignored in the rest. It is entirely to the credit of […]
