The orchestra is bidding farewell to Alessandro Cappone, who is retiring from the first violin section after 44 years. His father, Giusto Cappone, was principal viola under Herbert von Karajan from 1958 to 1984. Alessandro […]
The Met has posted video of a visibly nervous Lise Davidsen taking her first jump into the Tosca pit: View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Metropolitan Opera (@metopera) […]
Zurich Opera hired the Russian exile Kirill Serebrennikov to mark what would have been Alfred Schnittke’s 90th borthday this month. His staging of ‘The Idiot’ replaces recent anti-Putin connotations with maximum gay exposure. From Lotte […]
Message from Cecilia Bartoli: During the 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, you will hear a selection of music spanning five centuries, featuring works that were either written in Venice, created for Venice or inspired by the […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, I am a public school orchestra director. I am pretty young, I graduated a couple of years ago, and then got a job (really nice one) in the […]
As long as I live – Cabaret Convention I didn’t get to the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s annual Cabaret Convention in New York this year because of a scheduling conflict but I was there in spirit […]
press release: CHICAGO – Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on a six-city, eight-concert U.S. tour (January 14–24, 2025) that marks their first domestic tour together since January 2023. Muti, the Orchestra’s distinguished 10th […]
A seriously destabilised Winchester Cathedral, undergoing a thorough bishop’s investigation over bullying allegations, has extended its interim director of music by one year. It says this will ‘allow the Cathedral time to develop its aspirations’. […]
The following notice has gone up in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, ending a year of unnecessary chaos. The boss was wrong. Will she admit it? The post End of: CBSO bans happy snappers appeared first […]
The headline is taken from a New Yorker opinion by Alex Ross on the composer’s 150th birth anniversary. We beg to disagree. Ives has fallen out of favour in the 21st century, and justly so. […]
