The death has been reported of Raul Barboza, master of the accordion who weaned the French off their wheezy soundscape onto a Latinate cosmopolitanism. Raul was 87. He migrated to France almost half a lifetime ago, in 1987.
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The former opera singer Nikola David has been named as the victim of a violent crime in Augsburg on Friday. Police say there did not appear to be an anti-semitic motivation. David, who came from […]
Some more happy news. The splendid Italian soprano Federica Lombardi will sing Donna Anna in the Met’s opening run of Don Giovanni from September 24. Then she will withdraw for six months to have her […]
This may save a lot of rehearsal time. From today’s programme release: When the Swiss composer Michael Jarrell came across Kassandra, a 1983 novella by the East German author Christa Wolf, his initial idea was to […]
