Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, is streaming Die Fledermaus today. Johann Strauss II’s comic operetta in three acts premiered in 1874 and has become a synonym of the operetta genre. In only six years, the operetta […]
Anja Mittermüller was named First Prize winner last night the 2024 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition. She’s 21. Just about old enough to accept a drink from the sponsor. The post Austrian mezzo wins bubbly […]
Swiss based Artists Management Company has signed the Berlin Philharmonic’s assistant conductor Christian Blex. Blex, 31, has come up through the Siemens Conductors Scholarship of the Karajan Academy. The post Berlin Phil assistant baton gets […]
A pair of public-minded investors, John and Jody Arnhold, have given $15m to support Juilliard’s Creative Enterprise program and $5m more for jazz. Their hope is that it will ‘bring further vibrancy to a school […]
The Dutch orchestra has just released named of its 14 Academy members for the coming season. All are EU citizens, bar one American: Lena Aigner (Austria): violin Katharina Von Behren (Germany): violin Pauline Herold (Germany): […]
Look Again: European Paintings—Rethinking Spain & The Spanish Americas One thing I’m definitely going to do when I get home to New York next week is to visit the newly renovated and reinstalled European Paintings […]
We hear the orchestra will ppresent its next CEO before the month is out. The key factor for the seach committee has been to recruit someone who has the trust of incoming director Gustavo Dudamel. […]
The Harlequin agency in Cardiff which has looked after the baritone Sir Bryn Terfel from the start of his career has agreed a merger with agency Keynote, a London-based artist management company. Harlequin was started […]
The prime minister has offered a tribute to the contest, presently under way. He writes: The Leeds combines two of my greatest loves: the city that absolutely formed me when I came here as a student; […]
The death has been communicated of Christine Weidinger who, on the advice of Marilyn Horne, quit a string of roles at the Metropolitan Opera to become a company member in Stuttgart Oper and then at […]
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