Месец: юли 2019

Production image The Marriage of Figaro © ROH 2019. Photo by Mark Douet. This was one of the best Le Nozze di Figaro I’ve seen.…

View More Your Reaction: What did you think of The Royal Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro 2019?

I am not sure why the national newspapers have failed to review the revival of Verdi’s Don Carlo at Grange Park Opera. There have been…

View More The Spanish Inquisition comes to the English countryside

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Christian Gerhaher, Joelle Harvey – Royal Opera (C) ROH 2019 photo by Mark Douet Mozart Le nozze di Figaro;…

View More Lively detail and strong character: Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden, with Christian Gerhaher’s role debut as Figaro

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Nick Pritchard, Martin Hassler, Carolina Lippo, John Molloy, Alexandra Lowe, Katie Coventry – Nevill Holt Opera 2019 (Photo Ellie…

View More 1920’s era silent films forms the inspiration for Adele Thomas’ production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte in the stylish new theatre at Nevill Holt Opera

A message from 劉孟捷 Meng-Chieh Liu, his teacher at Curtis:   Tianxu An, who has been studying with me at Curtis for the last four…

View More What happened to Chinese pianist after the Tchaikovsky disaster

There was music-biz consternation 18 months ago when Jaap Van Zweden, newly installed at the New York Philharmonic, fired the agent who lined up the…

View More Jaap dumps agent, again

The Russian pianist has announced a Salzburg Festival premiere. Here’s the press release: Grigory Sokolov & the Salzburg Festival present ALEXANDRA DOVGAN (SF, 1 July…

View More Grigory Sokolov presents a protégée

The Russian soprano Elena Guseva was at the airport in Vienna after singing Aida the night before when she got called back to sing Desdemona…

View More Vienna hauls soprano back from airport

They sold the Central Park condo last week for something in the region of $15 million. After Isaac’s death in 2001, it went for $3.4m.…

View More Look what they did to Isaac Stern’s apartment