Message from Emma Schul in south London: After many years together, my lovely violin was stolen from my car last Saturday (15/2/2025) in Croydon. It has a very distinctive medallion carved on the back (see […]
The Orquesta de Extremadura, serving Spain’s poorest region on the border with Portugal, has chosen Roberto Forés Veses as its new artistic director. Valencia born, he was previously at the Orchestre national d’Auvergne in France. […]
The prestigious Brussels piano competition has selected 70 pianists out of 289 applicants. Koreans predominate. There are five with the surname Kim, two Suns, a Moon, a Shin, a Lee, a Hwang, a Bae and […]
Three new Shakespeare productions opened this week. Nicholas Hytner’s Richard II livened up London’s Bridge. Tom Hiddleston shed his shirt in Much Ado About Nothing at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. And Rupert Goold directed a revised Hamlet with […]
Three new Shakespeare productions opened this week. Nicholas Hytner’s Richard II livened up London’s Bridge. Tom Hiddleston shed his shirt in Much Ado About Nothing at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. And Rupert Goold directed a revised Hamlet with […]
Three new Shakespeare productions opened this week. Nicholas Hytner’s Richard II livened up London’s Bridge. Tom Hiddleston shed his shirt in Much Ado About Nothing at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. And Rupert Goold directed a revised Hamlet with […]
The West-East Diwan Orchestra has been rehearsing in Berlin for its spring tour. Daniel Barenboim has asked his friend Zubin Mehta to stand in for him. Daniel Barenboim: “I am thrilled that Zubin has agreed […]
Culture senator Joe Chialo has said the city needs to make further savings in addition to the 131 million euros slashed in the present budget. He’s talking of reductions of 149 million euros next year […]
Herbert Fritsch’s production of The Barber of Seville has some stage business involving opoungent cheese. Krone reports that the foul smell reached the audience and many people walked out. The production has been replaced by […]
The Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov has made his conducting debut at the Winter Arts Festival in Sochi, wielding his stiick over Verdi’s Requiem. Abdra was cancelled by western theatres after aligning himself with Vladimir Putin’s […]
