The Minnesota Orchestra is not afraid of the unfamiliar. The Chilean-Italian conductor Paolo Bortolameolli outs on Venezuelan-Chilean composer Miguel Farías’ Retratos Australes, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3, and First Associate Concertmaster Susie Park performs Mexican-born Gabriela […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The most influential Irishman in the history of music is not Bob Geldof, Bono, Sinead O’Connor or the Dubliners, all of whom are famous as influenza, but a […]
Neither Drums Nor Trumpets and the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival by Alastair Macaulay London has a new dance season: the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival, eclectic and international, […]
The veteran entertainer has four concerts still to go, but he’s pulling down the curtain after seven decades on the road. His social media informs us: As many of you may already be aware, Johnny […]
The half-banned Russian soprano will singer her first Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera in the coming season at Staatsoper under den Linden, rolled out yesterday by her loyal supporter, Christian Thielemann. The newly […]
From our Nordic correspondent: Since the start of the war, two or three ballet groups have been touring Sweden and Finland under Ukrainian flags, collecting money for the national defence. It now appears all the […]
A recording of piano music by the esoteric Scotsman Ronald Stevenson was last night awarded Classical Record of the Year at Grammis 2025, the Swedish record industry’s annual bash. The recording, on the Finnish label […]
The municipal council of Pforzheim in southwest Germany has appointed Daniel Inbal as its theatre’s next General Music Director. Inbal, whose father Eliahu enjoyed a far-flung international career, has been Kapellmeister for the past 15 […]
Virginia Woolf 84 years ago this week on 28th March, Virginia Woolf aged 59 took her own life by walking into the River Ouse with stones in her pockets because, having suffered from recurring bouts […]
How far may a person go to free themselves from dire circumstances? Here, a woman becomes a vile murderer, and yet the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich sympathises with her. Of his own radically complex leading character, […]
