That Bastard Puccini is the title of a new play coming to the London stage by former Gramophone editor, James Inverne.
It recounts the race between Puccini and Leoncavallo to compose an opera on La Boheme.
Anyone know who won?
Details here.
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Violinist Lisa Batiashvili has cancelled her three concerts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia on 28/29/30 November with Daniel Harding conducting. Her replacement in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.2 will be the Hungarian Kristóf […]
The Universal Music Group labels have achieved a clean sweep of the top ten in Germany this week. Top of the pile is a vinyl reissue of Claudio Abbado’s Mahler 2. Also doing well is […]
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