This is the Dutch TV investigation into allegations of abusive conduct by the country’s leading conductor, Jaap van Zweden. Includes rare hiostorical footage.
Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanychev in Aberdeen (Photo: Christopher Bowen) The 2024/25 season sees Maxim Emelyanychev returning for his sixth season as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) with nine concerts, both as […]
The painter Jan Breugel the Elder died 400 years ago this week, on Jan 13, 1625, aged about 47. Son of Pieter Breugel, brother of Pieter Breugel the Younger, and father of, not surprisingly, Jan […]
Se in 14th-century Siena, Italy, Francesco Cilea’s opera Gloria, performed here in its 1932 revised edition, contains the tragic story of two lovers caught up in a conflict (between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines: of […]