Месец: февруари 2019

Nearly a decade ago, I had a chat with the pianist Paul Lewis in a BBC green room about his experiences of playing through injury.…

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Production photo of Così fan tutte, The Royal Opera © 2019 ROH. Photograph by Stephen Cummiskey Proof how a change of conductor can completely refresh…

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First rehearsal shot from Covent Garden’s Forza del destino: l-r: Yusef Eyvazov, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Georg Zlabinger, Anna Netrebko Antonio Pappano, Christopher Maltman. Photo: Instagram

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The Nestlé coffeemaker Nespresso has pulled its cast out of the Verbier Festival. The annual drip was worth quarter of a million Swiss francs and…

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Rating:  0 What is a prepared piano? Cutlery, metal screws, bits of plastic and rubber. Not your usual accessories for a concert pianist. Unless, that…

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Matthew Wages, Alexa Devlin, Jovani Demetrie, Claire Leyden, Andrew Klima, Sarah Caldwell Smith, David Seatter, and Joanie Brittingham The world needs people with obsessions, people…

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Ahead of International Women’s Day, The Telling is bringing Empowered Women, a trilogy of Clare Norburn’s concert dramas, to Music at Oxford on 1 and…

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Handel: Giulio Cesare at Opera North in 2012 (Photo Tristram Kenton) Opera North has announced its plans for the Autumn 2019 and Winter 2020 seasons,…

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