Pretty well, it seems. Lise Davidsen jumped in with ease as Ariadne. Kurier praised the ‘Bewitchingly beautiful singing’. Davidsen, wrote Der Standard, ‘effortlessly sings her way through the role of the ancient mourner who awaits […]
Home life in Anif. Image posted on Facebook in 2019 by the Herbert von Karajan official page. And another from Twitter/X: same credit. ©Siegfried Lauterwasser, Karajan-Archive. The post Musicians who look like […]
Press release: The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and Universal Edition are jointly launching the International Competition for Young Composers. The composition competition […]
A letter to the New York Times: I’m a co-owner of Luaka Bop, a New York-based record label, and last June was accompanying the Staples Jr. Singers, a gospel group from Aberdeen, Miss., on a […]
The Salzburg Schokolade company has issued its final batch of Mirabell Mozartkugeln. The American owner, Mondelez, has decided to move production abroad. But no location or date has been fixed for resumption. The Salzburg factory […]
Cynthia Erivo Click here to watch Cynthia Chinasaokwu Onyedinmanasu Amarachukwu Owezuke Echimino Erivo celebrates her 38th birthday this week. I’m being pernickety about her proper name as I was rightly taken to task recently for […]
The Trinidadian singer Jeanine de Bique has been receiving some critical heat in Paris over her French diction as Telaire in Rameau’s Telaire Castor et Pollux at the Opéra. She’s not going to take that. […]
The agency has ‘reintroduced’ its classical touring division in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and South America. Peter Ansell of Intermusica joins as executive VP and head of department. See also: The case for […]
Orchestra consultant Thomas Wolf throws down a gauntlet: Let’s say you are an aging professional athlete who has enjoyed a successful career in your sport but you are no longer competing at a peak professional […]
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