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There’s room at the top of Canadian Opera Company. Look at the admin board and you’ll find that COC Deputy General Director Christie Darville has been erased. No word from anyone. Darville has been with […]

Elizabeth Taylor Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, born February 27, 1932, died 14 years ago this week on 23rd March, aged 79. She was much more than “the girl with the violet eyes”. Elizabeth Taylor was […]

The Venetian musicologist Michele Girardi has died in his home town after a long illness. An international authority on the operas of Puccini, he recently stepped down as chair in the History of Music at […]

The Málaga Film Festival has premiered a documentary on Beethoven’s Fidelio, directed by the Spanish actor María Valverde, who is married to the conductor Gustavo Dudamel. The project, originally presented in Barcelona last year, features […]

The Moldovan soprano Valentina Nafornița, who was twice honoured with opening the Vienna Opera Ball, has announced a happy event. Sometimes miracles come in pairs! Life has given us another reason to be grateful, and […]

Utah Symphony and Opera have received a hige gift from a family whose commitment to its work dates back to the formative conductor, Maurice Abravanel. Here’s the press release: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (March 21, […]

The music community in Boston is mourning the livewire known as Scott Nickrenz. Scott was responsible for concert programming at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for 26 years. Before that he was director of chamber […]

From an article in The Atlantic: … Most scheduled performers have not canceled. In the first month of Trump’s chairmanship, the Center hosted a children’s play based on the Navajo creation myth; a class on […]

The death has been announced of the Ukrainian composer Yakov Gubanov, aged 71. His legacy includes six symphonies, a violin concerto and much other orchestral music. He credited Dmitri Shostakovich with a profound influence on […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: These double-albums left me feeling uncomfortable. Ravel is a miniaturist, a maker of exquisite small things that drop into your consciousness like olive oil into a bowl of […]