An insider tells us that the WNO orchestra will open next season without:
A Leader
Principal second violin ( long-term maternity leave)
ANY double-basses
Principal flute
Second clarinet
Second trumpet
Second trombone
Timpanist
There are just two violists left.
That’s not an opera orchestra, it’s a bandstand.
Will no-one fight to save it?
The post This is all that is left of Welsh National Opera appeared first on Slippedisc.
The orchestra and its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin have chosen three new cellists – one Chinese, one from Taiwan and an Israeli. Jiayin He, from Shanghai, is presently principal cello in the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. […]
The Canadian Opera Company has renewed the contracts of COC Music Director Johannes Debus and Chorus Master Sandra Horst to 2029. COC says: Our audiences know that an opera with Johannes at the podium and […]
Thaxted Festival: Purcell The Fairy Queen, Z 629. Oz Clarke (narrator); Eloise Irving, Hannah Fraser Mackenzie, Laura Moretto (sopranos); William Towers (alto); Matthew Pochin (tenor); Robert Davies (bass); Armonico Consert & Baroque Players / Chrisopher […]
