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The BBC Philharmonic announces its 2025/26 season

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First performed on January 20, 1699, André Campra’s comic opera/ballet Le Carnaval de Venise to a libretto by Jean-François Regnard finally arrives at its UK premiere in late Summer 2025 at the Vache Baroque Summer Festival. It is sung in French, Italian and English, a heady mix and a real test (successfully passed) for the singers. All this happened against […]
Brooklyn Academy of Music has chosen veteran programmer Amy Cassello as its Artistic Director. BAM President Gina Duncan said: ‘Amy is a deep thinker who considers the needs of artists and arts workers at every […]
The 2025 Birgit Nilsson Prize – worth 1 million US dollars – was awarded today to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, whose director Pierre Audi died tragically two weeks ago. The citation says: ‘With its forward-looking and […]