After five years in charge, the chief conductor has given a rare interview to the elite orchestra’s website: Are there aspects of Mahler’s personality to which you have felt particularly drawn? His Jewishness has always […]
From my monthly essay in The Critic: … there is just enough method in the Trumpian mayhem to suggest the possibility of positive outcomes. We have heard too much moralising from arts leaders. Arts centres […]
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I’m stuck between two cellists. One is a Zionist, the other pro-Palestinian. They no longer talk. I am the one expected to hold the section together, even though I am […]
The Finns plan next season to premiere an opera of Karl Ove Knausgård’s autobiographical series of novels, Min Kamp, which runs to 3,500 pages and is presently stopping many household doors. The Norwegian is described […]
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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 […]
