The Metropolitan Opera’s general manager has been giving some pre-curtain thoughts on Fidelio. ‘It’s a mesage to dictators that rings true today… My personal heroine is my wife, the conductor Kerri-Lynn Wilson, who, as I […]
The Barbican Centre’s last CEO, Claire Spencer, left in the dead of August after just 18 months amid loud whispers that she had been bullied out of the job by City of London bosses. Not […]
Yesterday’s winners at the Met Opera’s Laffont Competition are: Sadie Cheslak, 30, mezzo-soprano (Duluth, Minnesota) Michelle Mariposa, 30, mezzo-soprano (Quezon City, Philippines) Luke Sutliff, 28, baritone (Denver, Colorado) Alissa Goretsky, 25, soprano (Los Angeles) Emma […]
The Berlin Philharmonic has put out a terse statement of change to this week’s schedule: ‘It is with great regret that for health reasons Zubin Mehta has been forced to cancel the concerts from 20 […]
Nat King Cole would have been 106 years old today. Born in Montgomery, Alabama on March 17, 1919, his mother was a church organist and taught him to play all kinds of music, “jazz, gospel, […]
HarrisonParrott’s Paris office has signed the Polish conductor Barbara Dragan, formerly with a Vienna boutique. Trained in Hamburg and Berlin, Dragan, 35, presided over pre-recordings of the 2024 Olympics with two Paris orchestras. The post […]
Conductor Oksana Lyniv commissioned a work that evokes a night in Odessa in March 2024, when a rocket attack claimed the lives of four infants and a baby. Five Interrupted Lullabies is by the Ukrainian […]
The US Presdident has signed an order shutting down the Voice of America, which broadcast chiefly to Russia and eastern Europe. All 1,300 staff have been sent home. America has gone isolationist. The post Trump […]
The 2025/6 programme was rolled out this morning under the enigmatic Sartrean slogan: ‘Man is what he makes of himself.’ Here goes: PREMIERES OF THE BAYERISCHE STAATSOPER 2025–26 THE ENGLISH CAT The first premiere of […]
The US violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic since 2014, has been co-opted by the Curtis Institute as its first ‘visiting faculty member’. He will devote one residency each semester to mentoring […]
