San Diego’s symphony hall, the Jacobs Music Center, is reopening this weekend after extensive refurbishment with Mahler’s second symphony.
As an unusual prelude to the ribbon cutting, music director Rafael Payare took the oath of US citizenship.
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We’re excited to report that the relentlessly serious opera-buff bible Avant-Scène Opéra will resume publication in November after being shut down by its previous owner in February. Jules Cavalié, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine, says: ‘I […]
Friends are reporting the death from a heart attack of Paul Charles Clarke, an international English tenor. Hailing from Liverpool, he won the Kathleen Ferrier prize and went on to sing abroad at Dallas Opera, […]
After yesterday’s post (Klassik unterim Hakenkreutz), this classic performance of Korngold seems relevant. Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) left Europe in the volatile mid-1930s and found fame in the US, specifically Hollywood (a fascinating upcoming disc […]
