Message received: After two and a half years of construction, the renovation and modernization of the Theater an der Wien has been completed and we are looking forward to celebrating the grand opening on October […]
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra have inserted an unusual programme a month from now. In the first half of the concert, outgoing music director Daniel Harding conducts works by two women composers, Lili Boulanger and […]
The Colorado Symphony has promoted its principal conductor, Peter Oundjian, to music director. The agreeable Oundjian was formerly chief of the Toronto Symphony and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Long before that, he played a football […]
In a move that has shocked the orchestra, concertmaster Vineta Sareika has told the Berlin Philharmonic she will be leaving in February. Sareika has spent three just over three years in the seat, and the […]
The vocal quartet G4 have made public the death of their former low tenor, Ben Thapa. No cause has been shared. Ben was known to have been hospitalised last month with kidney disease. G4 say: […]
The Canadian pro-Ukraine activist Keri-Lynn Wilson has been rewarded with the leadership of a Kyiv orchestra. Wilson is married to the Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb. From the AP: NEW YORK (AP) — Keri-Lynn […]
The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg will feature identical concerts in the same week by Christophe Rousset and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, and by the MCO’s founder Sir John Eliot Gardiner with his newly created ensemble, […]
From the Korea Times: Renowned soprano Angela Gheorghiu caused a stir during a performance of Puccini’s “Tosca” in Seoul, halting the orchestra and interrupting her co-star’s mid-show encore, much to the dismay of opera enthusiasts […]
The Royal Musical Association marks its 150th anniversary with a conference in London this week. Keynote speaker will be the New Yorker critic Alex Ross. His paper is titled: ‘The End of the Family Line: […]
Tributes are flowing for the late Herbie Flowers, whose distinctive twang can be heard on recordings by David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Elton John and, indelibly, on Lou Reed’s Walk On The Wild Side. Herbie learned […]
